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BRYN MAWR, Penn., Feb. 9--A Negro civil rights leader and the editor of a segregationist newspaper clashed head-on Friday night over whether Negroes are superior to whites biologically, intellectually, and legally...
Said Morrison: "You can put me down as last in any hating contest." Kennedy was unpopular in Louisiana, as he was in most of the Deep South. And because Morrison, although a lip-service segregationist himself, was unwilling to inveigh against Kennedy, he was a distinct underdog...
...Supremest? In Mississippi, where only 6% of the state's Negroes have the vote, the issue was who would be the supremest white supremacist. Paul Burney Johnson Jr., Democratic Lieutenant Governor, had a head start as the outdoing disciple of segregationist Governor Ross Barnett. Once a man gets the Democratic nomination in Mississippi, he is usually as good as elected, but Johnson had to work hard to win the general election last week. He was opposed by Republican Rubel Phillips, who ran as a Goldwater-backing candidate and polled an amazing-for a Mississippi Republican-123,000 votes...
...Silver keeps a loaded shotgun in his Oxford, Miss., home. It is not for hunting; it is for protection. For 27 years Silver, a history professor at the University of Mississippi, has spoken out against the segregationist way of Mississippi life. The anonymous threats against him have been so numerous that he long ago lost count. He has been hauled before the Ole Miss board of trustees on Citizens Council charges ranging from practicing communism to insulting a Confederate general's memory. In Mississippi, his has been a lonely battle...
Ervin's concession has little meaning, however. According to federal statutes, any case tried by a three-member panel of judges may be appealed directly to the U.S. Supreme Court. If the three judges,--one a segregationist, one a liberal, and one of uncertain conviction--refuse to set bail for the four prisoners, the case will be appealed to the high court immediately...