Word: segregationists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rioting in the cities. In Maryland, Perennial Also-Ran George Mahoney beat out seven rivals for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination by keying his campaign to prejudiced-or frightened -whites. In Louisiana, twelve-term Congressman James Morrison paid for his moderate racial record by losing the Democratic primary election to Segregationist John Rarick, who attacked Morrison as an ally of "the black-power voting bloc...
...these in the primary (except Miles' home county). But why was everyone so surprised? Wallace took 11 of the 12 in 1964. After the election too many people wouldn't look at a plain fact--the Eastern Shore and the southern counties have simply always been pro segregationist...
Since his 211,000 votes did not constitute a clear majority, Arnall faces a runoff on Sept. 28 against Atlanta's Lester Maddox, 50, who became a martyr to the segregationist cause by closing down his Pickrick restaurant in Atlanta rather than obey the 1964 civil rights law barring racial discrimination in public accommodations. Maddox drew 166,000 votes in an unexpectedly close struggle for second place with State...
More than 40 schoolchildren were treated for injuries. The violence also took its toll on the remaining vestiges of responsible white leadership. At the height of the fury, the mob demanded -and got-the resignation of City Manager John McEachiri, who, though an avowed segregationist, had discouraged racial violence so as not to impede the town's influx of light industry...
...were the papers' political differences the basic reason for the divorce -although the Times reflects the liberal attitudes of its Northern cousin, the New York Times, while the Free Press speaks for its conservative, segregationist publisher, Grocer Roy McDonald, 64. What disturbed McDonald was that he thought the Times spent far too much space and money on national and international coverage, while he concentrated on local events in a lighter fashion at less expense. Why should he pay for half the cost of printing presidential speeches verbatim? Replied a Timesman: "We paid for half the Cub Scout pictures...