Word: segregationist
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...Polite. The civil rights fight is a perfect case in point. In it, Mansfield must contend with three distinct groups -a pro-rights alliance of Northern Democrats and liberal Republicans; a segregationist bloc of Deep South Democrats, plus such G.O.P. right-wingers as Texas' John Tower and Arizona's Barry Goldwater; and the fence riders, mostly middle-of-the-road Republicans who approve generally of civil rights but would like some amendments to the bill that passed the House by a 290-130 vote last month...
...Martin Luther King Jr., the ad solicited funds for Dr. King's defense against charges of state income tax evasion (he was subsequently acquitted). In language any Southern segregationist would find inflammatory, the ad stated that armed Montgomery, Ala., police ringed a local Negro college campus to subdue a student civil rights protest, and later locked students out of the dining hall "to starve them into submission." It also charged "Southern violators" with bombing Dr. King's home and with arresting him seven times...
Higgs gave little thought to the race issue before 1959; that year, in fact, he ran for the legislature as a "stauch segregationist." However, at that time he also began accepting Negro clients "out of curiosity." "They came to me beaten, their eyes knocked out, their land stolen. I found that there was no remedy in the courts or in politics. I began to investigate my beliefs...
...Angels. His task as a judge, Johnson says, is not to advance the cause of civil rights but to apply the law in the cases that come before him. "I'm not a segregationist," he says, "but I'm no crusader, either. I don't make the law. I don't create the facts. I just interpret...
...Word of Caution. On crossexamination, Waller brought out Beckwith's militant segregationist sentiments. Beckwith admitted writing a letter to a Jackson newspaper in which he said: "I shall bend every effort to rid the U.S. of integrationists, whoever and wherever they may be." As Waller read the excerpt, Beckwith leaned forward to caution him solicitously: "I want you to understand; and where there is humor intended, I want you to laugh and smile; and where it is serious, I want you to be serious...