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...Chicago, one of the few successful white working-class insurgent efforts against the Daley machine has been led by a segregationist priest, Father Lawlor. Newark, where a black mayor was elected in 1969, has seen almost no interaction between Italians and blacks. New York's formerly liberal Jewish candidates are now emphasizing their opposition to housing projects and school busing. And many people in the Irish and Italian sections of Queens, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, have left the Democratic Party to join the Conservative Party...
...bitter dispute with the more moderate members of Truman's Cabinet. Eventually Byrnes' deep conservatism reasserted itself and he fell out with both the President and the National Democratic Party. In 1950, at the age of 71, he was elected Governor of South Carolina on a segregationist platform...
...conservative Richmond Times-Dispatch ran a series of antibusing editorials and printed angry letters decrying the "puppet courts throughout America" and the "Communist trend overtaking the nation." Raymond Boone, editor of the Richmond Afro-American, made it plain that the city's blacks consider the antibusing factions segregationist. "This will determine whether democracy can work or not," he said. "If we don't make it this time, you can forget...
Partly because of these very traditions, however, Powell stands out against the stereotype of the segregationist. When some Virginians were trying to launch a policy of "interposition" against federally enforced integration of schools, Powell denounced the doctrine as "a lot of rot." As chairman of the Richmond public school board, he presided over the successful, disturbance-free integration of the city's schools in 1959. No sooner had he been nominated to the Supreme Court, in fact, than he won the endorsement of Virginia N.A.A.C.P. leaders...
...Senate battle over confirmation. Poff, whose wife is ill, told House Republican Leader Gerald Ford: "Jerry, I'm just not going to let my family and my name be subjected to that kind of abuse." Actually, Poff was supported by some liberals in the Congress for renouncing any segregationist views, and a White House count revealed that at least 55 Senators would have approved his nomination. Presidential Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler said that Nixon still felt that Poff is "highly qualified" but that he "respects the decision which the Congressman has made...