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...Senator offers more promise for positive change than anything he has yet said or written. And it will undoubtedly help re-establish the party's appeal to Negro voters ?some 70% of whom are now registered Democrats. Indeed in the South, where Democrats have wielded a segregationist whip for decades, Brooke's kind of liberal Republicanism could become a major stimulant to a G.O.P. revival among black men?although, so far, Southern Republicans have all too often tried to outdo the Democrats at the segregationist game...
...visiting delegation of Junior Chamber of Commerce officials. After attending the annual presidential prayer breakfast, at which he confessed that "none of us can ever be certain that we are right," Johnson found time for his first meeting with Georgia's Democratic Governor Lester Maddox, who as a segregationist restaurateur had picketed the White House in 1965. Allowed Maddox after his ten-minute private chat with L.B.J.: "The country is big enough...
Georgians who are unhappy over the segregationist position of both Maddox and Callaway-and who caused the dilemma by casting 48,439 votes for a write-in candidate-most likely will have to wait until the general election...
...rebellion, but in the past, the students have consistently elected liberals and moderates as editors of the Mississippi. Even the Mississippian's temporary summer editor. Bob Boyd, criticized the Oxford school system for failing to observe federal desegregation guidelines. Boyd also attacked Representative Jamie Whitten (D.-Miss.), a conservative segregationist from Oxford's congressional district...
...Southerner who believes discrimination is wrong can take a strong stand and become a martyr, but he must consider the consequences of his defeat, and the possibility that his successor might be an extreme segregationist, McCarthy added...