Word: segregationist
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Civil rights, though, remains the big problem. For ten years the Fifth has steadily overruled segregationist district judges while vigorously carrying out the Supreme Court's 1954 ban against segregated schools. In the process it has upheld the desegregation of everything else in sight-buses, parks, juries, ballots, libraries, sporting events, the universities of Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi. The court has made law, not just followed it. It has pioneered, for example, in the use of injunctions to force state and federal courts to act faster in carrying out constitutional rights. Chief Judge Elbert P. Tuttle has made strategic...
Silver finds many northerners as narrow-minded as any Southern segregationist, and he berated last night's audience for "blaming Harlem hoodlumism on environment, which is right, but refusing to find environment behind the poor Klansman who burns churches...
...that state, district judges are drawn from their own localities. The judges were approved by Attorney General Robert Kennedy, but he knew that all candidates, and especially those for the Southern bench, would have to be "traded out" with the Senate Judiciary Committee chaired by Mississippi's Segregationist James...
Arkansas (6): The state G.O.P. organization is run by Gubernatorial Candidate Winthrop Rockefeller, who scrupulously avoids mentioning Barry's name in public. There is strong segregationist sentiment, but Johnson is narrowly favored...
Nothing made McShane prouder of his men in that crisis than the fact that though many of them were pro-segregationist Southerners, not a single one failed to live up to his oath and 100 were injured. As for McShane himself, Acting Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach calls him "typecast" for the job. "I have never seen him falter under any kind of fire," says Katzenbach. "I always have the feeling about Jim that he takes his oath of office all over every morning...