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...sweltering heat of Virginia's Prince Edward County, Negroes woke from long torpor last week to demonstrate against the most infamous segregationist tactic in the U.S. - the closing of all public schools there since 1959. White officials requested extra jail space in eight surrounding counties - enough, said one Negro leader, "to house every citizen of Prince Edward County, Negro and white, including horses, cattle and dogs." The poignant point of the strug gle was summed up in one teen-age picket's placard. It read: DEMOCRASY. "These niggers can't even spell," scoffed a white cop. "What...
...sign, slightly askew, that read "keep smiling." An American flag stood at his right and four fans hung from the ceiling. Only three worked, adding a strange accompaniment to the proceedings. The judge, with gray hair and a beaked nose, poured ice water continually into a glass, had the segregationist Albany Herald brought to him each day at about 3 P.M. which he diligently read for the following hour. Before making any pronouncement he shifted the tobacco in his mouth, spat, and then spoke in a creaking inaudible voice, that even counsel sitting in front of him had to strain...
...Democratic Governor Pat Brown came right out and charged that Goldwater shares the "position of extreme Southern Governors." That sent newsmen scurrying to ask other Governors where they thought Barry stood. Georgia's Carl Sanders said that in his state Goldwater is widely "thought of as a segregationist." Mississippi's Ross Barnett said he was not sure, but "I understand he's an integrationist." No, argued Arizona's Paul Fannin, a Goldwater Republican: Barry is neither a segregationist nor an integrationist, but "an American." Well, New York's Nelson Rockefeller put in, it would...
Goldwater himself energetically denied that he is a segregationist or has ever been one. "When Pat Brown calls me that," said Barry, "he speaks from his usual source of ignorance...
...segregationist Mississippi law forbids Negro state colleges to hire white teachers. Last week Moses Hadas, the famed Columbia University classicist, slipped around the law without ever leaving Manhattan. Picking up the telephone, he lectured for an hour through his luxuriant white beard to 500 rapt students at four Negro colleges in Louisiana and Mississippi. His subject: the religious roots of Greek drama. The phone bill was $100, a pittance paid by the Fund for the Advancement of Education, which thus demonstrated one of education's cheapest, handiest new ideas...