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Next day, at a Fourth of July segregationist rally at Atlanta's fairgrounds, three Negro youths were beaten with metal chairs in a melee that began when the Negroes and a white girl civil rights worker entered the grandstand. Forty whites chased the Negroes into a fenced corner, pommeled them until cops broke...
That headline symbolizes the Record's dilemma. As a newspaper, it has begun at last to give St. Augustine's civil rights movement the news prominence it deserves. Record accounts of local violence now appear where they belong: on the front page. But as a newspaper with segregationist sympathies, the Record bends over backward to accommodate what it considers the right side...
...Declaration of Inde pendence; to put solid flesh on those noble words that all men are created equal." In that statement, Scranton reflected the mainstream of national Republican thinking on civil rights as evidenced, also last week, by Senator Everett Dirksen's leadership in achieving cloture against a segregationist Democratic filibuster (see cover story...
...first and is still one of the few Southern papers to accept the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision on public school integration. Both papers continue to champion the role of reason. Only last month Constitution Editor Eugene Patterson argued that "the central weakness of the old Southern segregationist position" is its effort "to justify wrong instead of trying to rectify...
Expected Tolerance. It was this sort of talk that started James Davis on his campaign to vary Atlanta's newspaper conversation. He found some willing segregationist cohorts, among them Roscoe Pickett, who is now Georgia's Republican national committeeman, and Lester Maddox, proprietor of an Atlanta fried-chicken joint called the Pickrick. From the Journal, Davis and company lured Associate Editor Luke Greene, who had served 24 years on that paper without ever quite approving its editorial approach. "I have always been a conservative," said Greene, who was appointed Times editor...