Word: segregationist
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Last week Alabama's Governor George Wallace did his level best to incite another such crisis. He failed. Indeed, what it added up to was a segregationist Southern politician's being outmaneuvered- rather easily...
...which had bridled last year at the violence with which the city met the first Freedom Riders, convicted Wallace of "reckless asininity." But even normally sympathetic papers found the Governor more than they could stomach. "George Wallace is not 'saving Alabama,' " said the Birmingham News, a militantly segregationist daily. "He is in the process of destroying self-government and the educational system of this state...
...Speaking the Truth." Four Alabama cities-Tuskegee, Mobile, Birmingham and Huntsville-were scheduled to start token public school integration. Even Birmingham, long a national symbol of diehard segregationist sentiment, now seemed resigned. "Few of us are happy," wrote the Birmingham Post-Herald, "but we trust that the people of Alabama will face up to their court-ordered responsibilities with a good grace and without violence." Said the Birmingham News: "Our school officials have looked at the problem from every angle. They are speaking the truth: there's nothing to do but keep schools open and do what the courts...
...last-ditch Segregationist Johnson, he tarred Coleman with being an old friend of Jack Kennedy (whose name is mud in Mississippi), painted himself as the man "who stood up for Mississippi" by blocking, for a while, the admission of Negro James Meredith to Ole Miss. Such is the climate of Mississippi today that the Coleman-Johnson runoff was hardly a contest. Johnson won, with 261,000 votes to Coleman...
Lewis persuaded a friend, one Kathy Harwell, 26, a divorcee and the mother of two, to stay in his house and play the part of the tarred-and-feathered "victim" of segregationist hoodlums. And so, one night last week, Robert and Eva Lewis stripped Kathy Harwell to the waist (she insisted on keeping on her bra), sopped her in tar, sprinkled on the feathers, and bound her arms. They then headed for the county sheriff's office to report another minor incident-and to give themselves an alibi. To make things even more realistic, another young female friend...