Word: segregationists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many speeches Flowers insists that he is a segregationist. He reminds his audience that his grandfathers fought for the Confederacy...
Does he consider himself a segregationist as most people in his audience use that word...
...could write history, we might write it differently," he said. "That's the reason I say I'm a segregationist. I'm a Southerner...
Alabama's Governor George Corley Wallace, who regards himself as the very prototype of the Southern statehouse segregationist, was bitterly attacked last week as a "liberalizer" and was defeated by that grand old Southern political device, the filibuster...
Godwin's neck is out. As a state senator, he led the Byrd machine's "massive resistance" campaign against school in tegration in 1959 and 1960, and has faithfully supported segregationist, budget-cutting legislation. However, since his election to the lieutenant-governorship in 1961, he has been carefully cultivating a more moderate image. Last year, with an eye to the Statehouse, Godwin campaigned vigorously for Lyndon Johnson while most Byrd stalwarts either sat on their hands or roundly supported Barry Goldwater. Godwin maintains that his earlier advocacy of segregated schools gave Virginians a "breathing period" in which...