Word: segregationist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...segregationist, but, to use an analogy, I like to see a team that's sure to win the pennant lose at least one ball game...
...following morning, Barnett called the White House again. He now seemed to be willing to cooperate. He urged the President to bring Meredith in that day, Sunday; there were, he said, indications that segregationist gangs were planning to converge on Oxford on Monday. As White House officials tell it, Barnett promised that if U.S. marshals escorted Meredith onto the campus on Sunday, the state police would help maintain order. Accepting these assurances, the White House decided to put Meredith onto the campus that afternoon, even before the President delivered his speech...
...public office. In 1951, without bothering to serve a political apprenticeship, he plunged in as a candidate in the Democratic gubernatorial primary. He lost, tried and lost again in 1955, finally won in 1959. The secret of his success: as the most outspoken racist among all Mississippi's segregationist politicians, Barnett won the support of the state's powerful white Citizens' Councils. Most Mississippi politicians refer to Negroes as "niggras" in public speeches; Barnett unfailingly called them "niggers," drew cheers, chuckles -and votes-from rural audiences. In his inaugural speech he declared that public education...
...that is to cut down a blackjack sapling and brain 'em and nip 'em in the bud." Griffin hastily added that he didn't mean to be taken literally-but obviously, in some circles, he was. For as Griffin let out all the segregationist stops in the closing days of one of Georgia's bitterest, dirtiest Democratic primary campaigns, racial violence popped out like the pox: night riders prowled the state, there were shotgun incidents in Dallas, Leesburg and Dawson, and two Negro churches were burned to the ground...
Near the charred remains of the Mount Olive Baptist Church in Sasser. Ga., which segregationist whites had burned to the ground. Temple University Student Prathia Hall, 22, led the all-Negro congregation in a worship vigil. "We may not be free in our lifetime," she prayed, "but O God, Lord in Heaven, we're going to be free...