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...political disputes. When newly elected Governor Eugene Talmadge died in 1946 before taking office, Fortson kept pretenders to the throne at bay by hiding the state seal under his wheelchair cushion until the succession battle was resolved. In 1968 Fortson again demonstrated his determination by defying the wishes of Segregationist Governor Lester Maddox and lowering state flags to mark the death of Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King...
...Berry, Little Richard, Muddy Waters and Ray Charles. To underscore the point, and to illustrate how threatening this music once seemed, Leo and Solt include some footage of angry parents, disc jockeys breaking rock records, and assorted other representatives of a concerned older generation, including a member of the segregationist White Citizens' Council, denouncing the music with considerable heat...
While it tries to rectify inequities suffered by some of its citizens, the U.S. remains an adamantly segregationist society when it comes to the aged. No other culture, East or West, ships its old people off to the Gulag archipelago of nursing and retirement homes with such manifest indifference...
Huck Nelson was only seven when his father first took him down to the steps of the courthouse in Chester, S.C., to hear fiery segregationist Strom Thurmond give one of his tub-thumping speeches. Thurmond was waging a winning write-in campaign for the U.S. Senate. Last week, 24 years later, Nelson, now a Thurmond campaign aide, slouched against the door of the National Guard armory in Greer, S.C., where, after a rousing performance by the Fairview Baptist Church Choir, Thurmond railed against the Panama Canal "giveaway" and the Labor Law Reform bill. Mused Nelson: "There's Thurmond, there...
Thurmond is the consummate courthouse-square politician, meticulously sending constituents congratulations for birthdays, weddings and graduations, and taking care of their problems with Government bureaucrats. Nowadays blacks as well as whites get such treatment. This has been the case ever since 1970, when a segregationist friend lost a bid for Governor. That caused Thurmond to realize the importance of the political power of the blacks; at present 30% of South Carolina's electorate is black. Thurmond appointed his first black staffer that year. More recently he voted for congressional representation for predominantly black Washington, D.C., and supported the appointment...