Word: segregationists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democrats left their first full-dress Senate attack on the Eisenhower Administration to Arkansas' J. (for James) William Fulbright, 53, the white knight of Democratic liberals-so white, in fact, that he is politically a segregationist with a record of opposition to last session's civil rights bill and of obdurate silence on Little Rock and his own state's governor, Orval Faubus. With such a background, Rhodes Scholar Fulbright chose an odd subject: education, and the federal education assistance bill before the Senate...
...Georgia's racist Marvin Griffin. Collins, in turn, was succeeded last year as chairman of the Southern Regional Education Board by Hodges. Last week Hodges worked another ploy. Planning their Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner in Raleigh, North Carolina Democrats planned to invite as main speaker a tub-thumping segregationist, possibly Georgia's Senator Herman Talmadge. Hodges held out for-and got-his own choice: Florida's soft-talking LeRoy Collins...
Campbell discussed specific cases of pro-integration ministers, faced with the problem of expressing their views before segregationist congregations...
...Harvard Young Republican Club voted unanimously yesterday to co-sponsor a speech by segregationist David Wang...
Speaking about the ACLU, Milstein said that "they didn't actually feel Wang was worth debating." Milstein emphasized that his club "obviously doesn't support Wang's views," but felt that the segregationist was entitled to state them...