Word: segregationist
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...market place. In South Carolina, moderates with labor and Negro backing managed to elect Donald Russell to the governor's office and subsequently succeeded in efforts to integrate a previously all-white university. At the same time they re-elected Olin Johnson to the Senate over concentrated conservative-segregationist opposition in both the Democratic primary and the general election...
Ever since he wrote the opinion in the 1954 school case, the mere mention of Chief Justice Earl Warren has been enough to redden the neck of any good segregationist. When Warren agreed to speak last week in Atlanta at Georgia Tech, authorities began preparing for trouble...
...turned out, Southern hospitality overcame Southern hostility. When the 71-year-old Chief Justice was introduced, he received standing applause from some 3,600 persons-four times the number that turned out for a lecture in December by Georgia's newly elected Governor, Carl Sanders, a moderate segregationist. Warren's serious talk on the relations between science and law ("Law has not kept abreast of science . . . A world without law is hell-bent for destruction with or without scientific discoveries") drew long applause at its end. There were no pickets, no boos, no threats...
...February of 1958, however, David Wang, a segregationist who wanted to nominate Ezra Pound for the Presidency, spoke in Lowell Lecture Hall to an unfriendly audience that jeered and booed...
...even in Alabama, Wallace's stand was not unanimously endorsed. Newly elected Lieutenant Governor James B. Allen, although a segregationist, has made it plain that he does not intend to back Wallace in defying the U.S. And Attorney General Richmond Flowers, in his inaugural statement, looked ahead to pending Negro applications to the University of Alabama. Said he: "Alabama's soul will soon be laid bare before the world. God grant that we may not be ashamed...