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Morris found that after 16 years of talking themselves into believing total school integration would never happen, the townspeople were too busy to notice him. As had previously occurred elsewhere in the South when integration began, hard-core segregationist parents enrolled their children in hastily organized, expensive all-white private "academies." But they did not really catch on. Yazoo's 11,000 citizens are about evenly divided between blacks and whites, but only 20% of the city's white pupils were pulled out for private schooling. Adult acquiescence was veiled in all sorts of rationalizations. One white mother...
...Safeguard anti-ballistic missile system and the nomination of Clement Haynsworth are loath to buck him again and must be shown something of a grave nature to deny him Carswell. Subjective criticism of his judicial talents, a 22-year-old racist speech, and other evidence of a segregationist past are considered insufficient reason to reverse the Senate tradition that a President is entitled to choose whom he wishes (see LAW). "How far can you go in not supporting the Administration?" inquired Oregon Republican Mark Hatfield. "How many times can you vote against the ABM and Haynsworth and still...
Signs of the uneasy new mood were everywhere last week. The South's most segregationist Governors were so emboldened that Georgia's Lester Maddox felt free to flaunt his racism in the restaurant of the U.S. House of Representatives. He passed out replicas of the ax handles he had used to bar blacks from his Pickrick Chicken House in Atlanta; when challenged by Michigan's Representative Charles C. Diggs Jr., he accused the black Congressman of acting like "an ass and baboon." Alabama's George Wallace announced that he was once more running for Governor "to get our schools back...
Innis has been talking with white segregationist Southern Governors about setting up separate black-run school systems. "Integration is dead," Innis claims. "Its epitaph has been in the coming for a hell of a long time. Integration came to be viewed by the civil rights aristocracy not as a means to an end, but as an end in itself...
First Names. Wyche's election victory hardly demonstrated a new spirit of racial tolerance. There were fears of violence among both races. Segregationist sentiment remains strong, and Wyche was overwhelmingly opposed by whites. Black voters outnumber whites 3 to 2, however, and with balloting running almost completely along racial lines, Wyche...