Word: segregationists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Into the Tennessee State Capitol at Nashville tramped 250 demonstrators bearing banners that read TENNESSEE BETRAYED, SEGREGATION OR WAR, and GOD, THE ORIGINAL SEGREGATIONIST. Representatives of the Tennessee Society to Maintain Segregation Inc., the Associated Citizens' Councils of Tennessee, and Pro-Southerners Inc., the demonstrators came to persuade Governor Frank Clement (TIME, Jan. 30) that Tennessee should declare the Supreme Court decision "null and void." They got an early hint of Clement's answer: when one of the demonstrators tried to eject a Negro photographer, a state trooper intervened: "If you hit that man, I'll lock...
...Memphis, Carter was in a battle with the other extreme. Appearing before the Memphis Public Affairs Forum, he denounced the pro-segregationist Citizen's Councils (TIME, Dec. 20) as "dangerous and unholy [organizations] unworthy to be called American ... a kind of uptown Ku Klux Klan." In the middle of his speech, Carter was interrupted by the wailing of sirens and the arrival at the auditorium of fire engines, police squad cars, a Navy shore-patrol wagon and two ambulances, all summoned by false alarms to break up the meeting. Cracked Carter: "The only thing missing was the Coast Guard...
...segregationist Citizens Council of Indianola, Miss. offered a $50 prize for the best essay written as part of the required work in the high-school's junior and senior English classes. Subject of the essay: "The Advantages to Both Races of Continued Separate Schools...
...Mound Bayou, Miss., Negro Physician T. R. M. Howard announced a fund-raising campaign for a special purpose: to help out any Negro who suffers economic pressure at the hands of the segregationist white Citizens Councils...