Word: segregationist
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...good faith on various desegregation promises. But an hour after the Guard pulled out of Cambridge, early last week, militants pressured her into agreeing to a new demonstration. Eleven Negro and white demonstrators marched downtown and tried to push into a café called Dizzyland, operated by a vociferous segregationist by the name of Robert Fehsenfeld...
...President and the Attorney General," rumbled Mississippi's Segregationist Governor Ross Barnett, "have encouraged demonstrations, freedom rides, sit-ins, picketing and actual violation of local laws. Gentlemen, if you pass this civil rights legislation, you are passing it under the threat of mob action and violence on the part of Negro groups and under various types of intimidation from the executive branch of this government...
South Carolina's Senator Strom Thurmond, an unyielding segregationist, asked Rusk whether he would not "agree that we have been making great progress in this country." Rusk agreed, but added that "there is still unfinished business." Asked Thurmond: "Who has been responsible for that progress-the white man or the Negro?" Rusk replied softly: "Both, working together." Did Rusk approve of the Negro demonstrations?, Thurmond continued. "If I were denied what our Negro citizens are denied," said the Secretary of State, "I would demonstrate...
...that was meant Beckwith's segregationist obsessions. He attended Greenwood's Episcopal Church of the Nativity. But, says a member, "He tried to inject racism into everything. If you talked about Noah and the Ark, he'd want to know if there were any Negroes in the Ark." In pursuit of his obsessions, Beckwith passed out racist pamphlets that he wrote himself, launched such an aggressive recruiting drive for the local white Citizens Council that its officers finally asked him to desist. He also stood in the doorway of Greenwood's bus terminal to block Negroes...
GREENWOOD, MISS. FBI agents arrested Byron de la Beckwith, 42, member of a white segregationist Mississippi Citizens Council, in connection with Medgar Evers' ambush slaying (TIME, June 21). J. Edgar Hoover said that the "Golden Hawk" telescope similar to that on the assassin's rifle had been traced to Beckwith, whose fingerprints checked with those on the murder weapon...