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...Target. The ugliness of the act aside, the killer of Medgar Evers could only have hurt his own blind cause. The national reaction was instantaneous. President Kennedy called it "appalling." In Mississippi, even segregationist Governor Ross Barnett denounced this "apparently dastardly act." Rewards totaling $21,000 were posted for information leading to the arrest of the killer...
They were appearing before the Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments, chaired by Tennessee Democrat Estes Kefauver. Their warnings had to do with a scheme being pushed by Southern segregationist leaders, under which presidential electors would not be pledged to follow the popular vote in their state...
...Courts. But not all the battles were waged in the streets. Last week, in an opinion written by Justice Arthur Goldberg, the U.S. Supreme Court slapped down segregationist notions of stalling on integration. Wrote Goldberg: "The basic guarantees of our Constitution are warrants for the here and now, and unless there is an overwhelmingly compelling reason, they are to be promptly fulfilled." The decision came in a suit against segregated recreation facilities in Memphis. The Supreme Court ordered that they be immediately integrated. And at week's end Memphis officials grudgingly complied, except for swimming pools, which were shut...
...University of Mississippi faculty during last fall's bloody Oxford riot, the University of Alabama faculty seems determined that there will be no student violence on their campus. President Frank Rose, an able educator and a moderate, months ago called in student leaders, pledged strict disciplinary action against segregationist demonstrators. Last week, with most of the main campus' 9,000 students already gone from Tuscaloosa for the summer, there seemed little inclination toward violence on the part of those who remained. Said one young man: "We're not going to let just one person stop...
...university's notoriously low faculty pay is only part of the story. The main problem is "intolerable" segregationist pressure. Says one professor: "We can no longer devote our primary attention to academic pursuits." The worst effect is loss of the university's best men. "I think we're coming to the point where we have entrenched mediocrity," laments a seasoned scholar. He is staying, but like others he is in a turmoil that hardly seems conducive to good teaching. Says he: "Each day I get angry enough about the situation that I decide I'll leave...