Word: segregationists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sits as Governor. Yet for Johnson, a rare Republican in, a Democratic state, legal vision and the dictates of conscience have always outweighed local pressure. He rejects labels-liberal, conservative or any other. His sole cause is not civil rights but the law. "I'm not a segregationist," he says, "but I'm not a crusader, either. I don't make the law. I don't create the facts. I interpret...
...classic example occurred in 1961 after Montgomery police watched idly as Freedom Riders were beaten. Sternly enjoining all parties from further action and reaction, Johnson limned a segregationist's nightmare: "If there...
...interview last week in São Paulo. "I learned that this had connotations of the racial struggle in the U.S.," he said, "and I made one condition to accept: I would come only if all the white players on the Santos team were also invited." In a curiously segregationist mood, the hosts refused, and so, said Pelé, "I just thanked them for the thought...
According to the letter, Mississippi Power and Light engaged in "racist hiring practices" and had an "affiliation with segregationist legislators." A covering letter from the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee later that May traced a complicated set of inter-relationships that they said formed the Mississippi "power base" -- Mississippi Power, the anti-integration White Citizens' Council and the state Democratic Party. SNCC claimed that these three organizations were the dominant political and social forces in the state...
Bucolic Reactionary. For Ted Agnew, who beat George Mahoney, a Democratic, demagogic segregationist last November, the raft of new laws meant fulfillment of his most important campaign promises during his first three months in office-with Democratic majorities of better than 4 to 1 in both houses. Luckily for Agnew and Maryland, most of the Democrats were not Mahoney men; for the first time, as a result of the state's court-ordered reapportionment, they represented population patterns rather than geography. Thus the political center of gravity had shifted from Maryland's conservative rural minority to its metropolitan...