Word: segregationists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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RICHMOND, Va. Feb. 1--The first public school integration in Virginia history starts today at Norfolk and Arlington, where city and school officials say they expect no violence. However, a segregationist group at Arlington has announced plans for a demonstration...
...first-rate fiscal mind, is a Rayburn protege, ranks high on the list of possible future Speakers. But he is in a dangerous political situation: with Arkansas due to lose two Representatives after the 1960 census. Mills cannot risk being gerrymandered out of Congress by a legislature under the segregationist thumb of Governor Orval Faubus. Mills therefore has recently taken a strong segregationist position, this year masterminded the disputed House seating of Little Rock Segregationist Dale Alford, won respect for his political footwork, lost points for the speakership...
Peterson goes on to assert that White is so far from being a Republican that he supported a segregationist Democratic candidate in the Texas Senatorial primary. To this White replies that there was no Republican running in the Texas primary...
...Arkansas Fifth (Little Rock) District, where Segregationist Independent Dale Alford defeated respected eight-term Democrat Brooks Hays after a write-in campaign attacking Southern Baptist Convention President Hays's moderate stand on integration (TIME, Nov. 17). Protesting the outcome last week was not Hays but John F. Wells, publisher of the Arkansas Recorder, a Little Rock weekly and Hays's longtime friend-and longtime political critic. Charged Wells* in a well-documented complaint: 1) Alford write-in stickers were delivered to election officials along with ballots and ballot boxes; 2) contrary to law, the stickers...
...Ernest Wilkins, is a Negro. Having found quarters at Maxwell Air Force Base, the group promptly encountered another welcome-mat-turned-stumbling-block. When they tried to subpoena county voting records, they discovered that Circuit Judge George Wallace (who was soundly whipped for Governor this year by equally segregationist-minded Attorney General John Patterson) had impounded the records, was threatening to jail any commission investigator who came nosing around...