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Only a few hours after a Lowndes County jury had once again upheld white over right, Alabama's Segregationist Governor George Corley Wallace took to TV to assure his constituents that no people in all the U.S. surpassed them in "culture and refinement...
...whites in the Deep South can afford perspective. Carter can because he has otherwise impeccable credentials. His sheer elegance protects him from his segregationist neighbors, even endears him to them. To be on the wrong side of "the Negro question" is contemptible (at the very least) in his state, but Carter measures up so well by all the other yardsticks of Southern quality--family, manners, appearance, and so on--that he is almost above reproach. If anyone attacked him for his one aberration, it would sound like sour grapes; remember, at that party, he was best in the show...
Death Threats. As far as Boston's Negroes are concerned, Mrs. Hicks's activities on behalf of neighborhood schools mask an out-and-out segregationist attitude. N.A.A.C.P. Leader Paul Parks contends that despite her "motherly image," she is "tyrannical to the Negro community." Others apparently feel even more strongly than that. Mrs Hicks says that she and her family-her husband, an engineer, and two sons, 18 and 20-have been repeatedly terrorized with death threats. She has taken out a permit to carry a pistol...
Mississippi's Governor Paul Johnson, who cannot run for re-election and thus has no need to court the segregationist vote, last month urged his state to comply with the new federal Voting Rights Act. In any event, warned the Governor, "any effort through the courts to obtain relief from this act is unlikely to succeed...
That left the field open to the segregationist, says Thurman. No voice rallied the liberal, or that far larger body of moderates who seldom move without a command, during that vital interval before the forces of segregation, then disunited, gathered and took charge. The only voice that might have prevented this, says Thurman, that might have stirred the moderates and won the liberals, was President Eisenhower's−and Eisenhower kept silent until the situation had already degenerated into violence at Little Rock...