Word: segregationist
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...even scoffed at it. But the headlines in the North made it seem like a big deal: the segregationist White Citizens Council of New Orleans was offering free one-way transportation to Southern Negroes who wanted to move North...
...idea was far from new, but much of the U.S. press recorded every bellowing boast from the council's man-in-charge-of-the-tickets, brash George L. Singelmann, 46. a personal aide to excommunicated Segregationist Leander Perez...
...Governor from 1949-53. A former Faubus ally, McMath split with the Governor by criticizing his extremist tactics in opposing school integration in Little Rock in 1957-58. Besides McMath, Faubus will have to contend with five other candidates in the July primary, including another friend turned foe: Segregationist Dale Alford, 46, who was elected to Congress in 1958 in the stormy aftermath of the Little Rock crisis. Plainly, segregation is going to be a primary issue. This is unfortunate, since 48 Negroes now attend three Little Rock high schools, and there has been no trouble since Orval stirred...
...been talking this way for a long time-and getting away with it. As Governor, he had even dared tease Alabama's segregationists. Said he: "No Negro child will be forced to go to school with white children as long as I am Governor of Alabama." During his administration he opposed segregationist plans to convert public schools to private schools, refused to sign oppressive segregation bills, even had a drink in the Governor's mansion with New York's Negro Congressman Adam Clayton Powell ("They say I drank Scotch and soda with Adam Clayton Powell. That...
...Selected to face each other in the May 29 runoff: former Circuit Judge George Wallace, 42, who promises that he will go to jail before permitting integrated schools, and Tuscaloosa State Senator Ryan deGraffenried. 37, a racial moderate. If it was any consolation to Folsom. Birmingham's super-segregationist Public Safety Commissioner. Eugene ("Bull") Connor, finished a sorry fifth...