Word: segregationist
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...grim, grimy, post-bellum steel town, Birmingham remains a backwoods with industrial chimneys. Its best-known citizen is Public Safety Commissioner Eugene ("Bull") Connor, a rambunctious segregationist. Rather than allow integration, Birmingham has shut down the entire city park system, sacrificed the city's baseball team, the annual Metropolitan Opera visit and Broadway shows-leaving Birmingham citizens with much time on their hands to ponder the price of intransigence...
Time to Talk. Many merchants favored negotiations and a possible loosening of the city's strict segregation ordinances. Said the segregationist Birmingham News: "It is time for Birmingham citizens to sit down and talk together." But Connor, running for Governor against popular "Kissin' Jim" Folsom and five other Democrats, is not about to sit down and talk. In retaliation for the boycott, the City Commission cut off city relief payments, most of which go to Negroes; Connor denied a routine permit for a long-planned, house-to-house collection for Miles's rundown library...
Rummel sent letters warning some of his segregationist parishioners against fur ther protest ; last week, as the complaints and picketing continued, he recognized that his decision to desegregate, if it was to mean anything, required stern enforcement. Along with Mrs. Gaillot, he formally excommunicated Leander Perez, 70, political boss of nearby Plaquemines Parish, and Jackson Ricau, 44, executive director of South Louisiana's Citizens Council. Although hundreds of Roman Catholics are technically excommunicated each year for such sins as marrying before a non-Catholic minister or joining the Masons, the penalty is seldom imposed these days upon specific, publicly...
...example, even a cursory examination of American Church History would reveal that the Church of Christ is not "a dissident Baptist sect." But this is a small matter. More serious is the generalization that members of the Baptist church and the Church of Christ are "conservative and segregationist wherever they are found...
...certainly true that an unfortunate percentage of the 11 million members of these churches are segregationist, but this, happily, is not the whole picture. Seven of the thirteen colleges supported by members of the Church of Christ are already integrated, at least to some extent, and integration is inevitable for most of the others. In fact, a recent poll at Harding College indicated that over 85 per cent of students and faculty favored integration. In all fairness, it must be admitted that this poll was censured by George Benson, president of the college and opponent of Senator Fulbright...