Word: segregationists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...music by the Clinch Mountain Clan and country songs by Grand Ole Opry stars brought out the voters 500 strong one hot night last week in East Ridge, Tenn. (1950 pop. 9,645). After a sample of the most lavish Democratic primary campaign that local politicians could remember, Millionaire Segregationist Prentice Cooper, 62, three-time Governor (1939-45) and Harry Truman's Ambassador to Peru (1946-48), poured it on incumbent U.S. Senator Albert Gore. "He is drawing $75 a day to represent the people of Tennessee," bellowed Cooper in a stomping cadence, "but he is supporting a oneworld...
...possibility that the state legislature will convene by September, vote a local-option plan for integration. Arlington County school-board members, polled privately, have said they would vote to integrate if an option plan allowed them to do so. But the legislature would have to be called by Segregationist Almond, who last week said: "We have state laws which we believe to be intact, and they will be applied in an honest effort to save public education from chaos...
Choosing among 14 all-out segregationist candidates for the Democratic nomination for Governor, Alabamans last week gave first place to one with highly acceptable credentials: Attorney General John Patterson, 36, who could boast at one time of having every Negro leader in the state under subpoena...
...leading last week's field, John Patterson drew heavily on the crusading father-and-son background, even more heavily on his record as an attorney general who would enforce to the letter Alabama's harsh segregationist laws. He won 160,000 votes to 134,000 for his nearest rival, Circuit Judge George Wallace, who had promised to jail any FBI man found snooping around his jurisdiction to investigate denial of Negro voting rights. Patterson is strongly favored in his runoff with Wallace next June, but either way, Alabama can be sure of having just the sort of segregationist...
...polls for Strijdom: his Nationalists increased their control of the House of Assembly to 103 of the 163 seats though their popular victory was by no means so decisive since they benefit from 50-year-old electoral laws which favor the hinterland. The United Party, which is as segregationist as Strijdom but talks of "white leadership with justice," increased its representation by one, to 53, but its party leader, Sir De Villiers Graaff, lost his gerrymandered seat to a Nationalist candidate. Minor political groupings, such as Novelist Alan (Cry, the Beloved Country) Paton's Liberal Party, won no seats...