Word: segregationists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Needling the North. The Administration belatedly switched signals to avoid the embarrassment of backing a segregationist ploy already ruled unconstitutional. HEW civil rights lawyers pointed out that if the original Whitten amendment passed, the Administration would have little choice but to denounce it as such, or to institute a quick court test to underline the point. Either way, the Administration would have been forced into taking direct actions repugnant to the South, countermanding the Congress and endangering future HEW appropriations...
...Leonard, who is chief of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. His reluctance was understandable. Leonard had just become the first Government lawyer ever to ask the high court for a delay in school desegregation. His unaccustomed ally was John C. Satterfield of Mississippi, the most prominent segregationist lawyer in the country...
...Transvaal, stronghold of the most intransigent white supremacists, a long-simmering quarrel between Vorster and the archreactionaries has burst into the open. Super-Segregationist Dr. Albert Hertzog, 70, expelled from the party last month, will formally launch a new political union this week-the Christian National Party-to challenge the Nationalists. For nearly 40 years, Hertzog has worked for apartheid. As he told 2,000 yelling, stamping followers in Pretoria, the Transvaal capital: "Die stryd duur voort"-the fight goes on. "I was expelled," he said, "not because I deviated from party principles but because I wanted to maintain...
...Phillips' book is an aggrandized version of the 1968 Republican presidential-campaign strategy-though Nixon, in his pre-election speech on new alignments, specifically sought to appeal to both black and white liberals. Phillips acknowledges that he expects to be accused of deepening racial discord and promoting segregationist politics, but, he adds: "I don't say that it should happen, I just say that it does happen. We have always had these ethnic cleavages, despite a lot of effort to pretend that they will go away...
Among his first official acts, the new mayor of Fayette, Miss., repealed the Delta town's segregationist ordinances. Mayor Charles Evers, 46, the first black mayor of a racially mixed Mississippi town since Reconstruction, had no trouble getting the bill through the town council. All five of its members are black, voted into office on Evers' coattails...