Word: segregationists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...glad to see it. I'm sorry that someone at the CRIMSON felt he had to label this essay "A Segregationist's Viewpoint," though. Rorer definitely does not impress me as a segregationist, in any legitimate sense of the word. Being a white man from Mississippi does not make one a segregationist, nor does differing with COFO aims and methods. He states that most Mississippians believe that segregation is morally right, and that Mississippi is trying to maintain a segregated mode of life. But does he support it in this aspect of its struggle? Does he defend the Mississippians' "civil...
Civil rights, though, remains the big problem. For ten years the Fifth has steadily overruled segregationist district judges while vigorously carrying out the Supreme Court's 1954 ban against segregated schools. In the process it has upheld the desegregation of everything else in sight-buses, parks, juries, ballots, libraries, sporting events, the universities of Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi. The court has made law, not just followed it. It has pioneered, for example, in the use of injunctions to force state and federal courts to act faster in carrying out constitutional rights. Chief Judge Elbert P. Tuttle has made strategic...
Silver finds many northerners as narrow-minded as any Southern segregationist, and he berated last night's audience for "blaming Harlem hoodlumism on environment, which is right, but refusing to find environment behind the poor Klansman who burns churches...
...that state, district judges are drawn from their own localities. The judges were approved by Attorney General Robert Kennedy, but he knew that all candidates, and especially those for the Southern bench, would have to be "traded out" with the Senate Judiciary Committee chaired by Mississippi's Segregationist James...
Arkansas (6): The state G.O.P. organization is run by Gubernatorial Candidate Winthrop Rockefeller, who scrupulously avoids mentioning Barry's name in public. There is strong segregationist sentiment, but Johnson is narrowly favored...