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...attack on Randolph, for example, calls to mind Meany's dispute with Rep. Adam Clayton Powell. When segregationist Rep. Burdick of North Carolina retired in 1959 as Chairman of the mightly House Committee on Education and Welfare, Meany opposed Powell's succession violently. Powell's pro-labor voting record (and Burdick's anti-labor tally) were apparently inconsequential...
...Atlanta will also have a moderate mayor to succeed Moderate William Berry Hartsfield, 71, who is retiring after 24 years in office. The city's voters have rejected a segregationist candidate, chosen instead, by a landslide of 64,313 to 36,091, Ivan Allen Jr., 50, proprietor of the South's biggest office-supply firm...
...Southern Governors' Conference in Nashville, where Tennessee's racially moderate Buford Ellington beat out Arkansas' diehard segregationist Orval Faubus for the chairmanship, a reporter asked South Carolina Governor Ernest Hollings how he felt about N.A.A.C.P. Special Counsel Thurgood Marshall's recent appointment as a federal judge. Replied Hollings resignedly: "I'm just glad Martin Luther King doesn't have a law degree...
...That Fits. Charleston's News & Courier styles itself SOUTH CAROLINA'S MOST OUTSPOKEN NEWSPAPER. The staunchly segregationist Columbus Commercial Dispatch hails itself as MISSISSIPPI'S MOST PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER. Connecticut's 197-year-old Hartford Courant calls itself the OLDEST NEWSPAPER OF CONTINUOUS PUBLICATION IN AMERICA. Despite saturation news coverage by TV and radio, many dailies idly boast that they are FIRST WITH THE NEWS...
...Orleans this week, 60 U.S. marshals stand by as perhaps 14 Negro children enter six desegregated grade schools. Peace or violence may hinge on segregationist reaction to another Southern milestone. Last week a three-judge federal court in New Orleans ruled unconstitutional the school-closing law that Louisiana's legislature enacted last winter as the keystone of a dozen state segregation laws...