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...Governors' conference in Glacier National Park, when Texas Governor Price Daniel tried to call a meeting of Southern Governors at which, presumably, the Southerners would declare their eternal support for Johnson. In a canvass of the Governors, Daniel got a couple of shockers: Mississippi's diehard segregationist Ross Barnett refused to guarantee his delegation for Johnson, because Johnson had pushed through the 1960 civil rights bill. Florida's Governor LeRoy Collins advised Daniel that his state was not solid for Lyndon; North Carolina, Alabama and Louisiana, among others, registered the same point. Finally, Daniel called...
...from the Tennessee border to the Atlantic in pursuit of the Democratic nomination for Governor were at opposite poles on the issue of race relations. Stocky former State Senator Terry Sanford, 42, had led a field of four in the first primary last month by soft-pedaling his own segregationist sympathies, pushing instead an ambitious program of building schools and luring industry. His runoff opponent, Dr. I. (for Isaac) Beverly Lake, 53, ex-professor of law at Wake Forest College, fired up rebel-yelling segregationist rallies by damning North Carolina's token school integration, promised to "create a climate...
Under local segregationist pressure, the Kiwanis Club of Greenville, S.C. canceled a speech, booked early last April, by North Carolina Integrationist Harry (For 2$ Plain) Golden, who took the wave-off more or less philosophically: "I was really surprised. Just a little speech. I wasn't going to be rude or disrespectful. I was merely going to talk about the South, the Jews, the race issues, the moral issues in integration...
...openly endorsed in the Democratic primary, had lost resoundingly. "I know he won't lie; I know he won't steal." Collins assured the voters in a TV speech, but they nevertheless showed a strong preference for Harvard-educated Lawyer Farris Bryant, a somewhat more outspoken segregationist than Carlton...
...Kirkwood was ready with a written statement. "Dealing as we are," said he, "with deep-rooted convictions of people in the South, it is hardly realistic to suppose that any one company is influential enough to suddenly change their thinking on the subject." Heckled by the handful of anti-segregationist,. Kirkwood replied: "This is not an issue between Woolworth and the colored race; it is between the American people and the colored race...