Word: segregationists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enlisting the aid of the Little Rock FBI office in a sleepless, round-the-clock hunt for the dynamiters. In three days he had rounded up five suspects: Building Supply Dealer E. A. Lauderdale Sr., 48, twice-defeated candidate for the City Manager Board and a leader of the segregationist Capital Citizens Council; Truck Driver J. D. Sims, 35, who admitted to an Arkansas Gazette reporter that he had placed three sticks of dynamite under Fire Chief Nalley's car and thrown ten sticks into the school board's office; Auto Salesman John Taylor Coggins, 39; Samuel...
Answering a Chamber of Commerce appeal for a reward fund, hundreds sent in donations in quarters, half dollars, bills and personal checks, totaling within a few days more than $20,000. The usually pro-segregationist Arkansas Democrat praised the outpouring, boasted: "That was the true Little Rock, rising out of a mist of half-lights and distortions emanating from our high school troubles to assert the principles that are the inheritance and pride of our people." In the cold loneliness of a man without a cause, even Governor Orval Faubus was moved to call the bombings "sickening and deplorable...
...House seats. With the state legislature under his control. Governor Orval Faubus will have the power to redistrict Wilbur Mills right out of the House, so Mills has had to avoid offending Faubus. Bowing to Faubus, Mills has been conspicuously protective toward Arkansas Congressman Dale Alford, outspoken segregationist, who was narrowly elected last November as a Faubus-backed write-in candidate.* Mills's friends sadly point out that Northern Democrats would never choose as Speaker a man regarded as being under even the remote control of Orval Faubus...
...such consorting with Jews and Catholics and for such views on education, John Patterson, as bitter a segregationist as adorns the Deep South, last week underwent the political equivalent of a cross burning. A delegation of 32 racists from around the state descended upon his office to demand his answers to a prepared list of loaded questions. Sample: "Did it ever occur to you that you are being used as a guinea pig by the Communist-Jewish integrators to sample the political sentiment of the South for a most distasteful candidate, John Kennedy?" Patterson, caught...
...Money is "only the beginning of the tale." Academic standards would fall. Tuition-grant schools could not hope to offer quality or variety of courses. Example: Little Rock's recently closed private Raney High School (TIME, Aug. 17), which offered less than 25% as many courses to its segregationist students as did the public Central High School, had no music, art, general mathematics or foreign languages. Nor would a wave of fly-by-night tuition-grant schools (most unaccredited) be subject to responsible supervision; fanatics and crackpots could easily control budgets and so set the curriculum, plunging Southern education...