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...succeed in Mississippi politics since Reconstruction has meant being a segregationist, and James P. Coleman succeeded. "Those who propose to mix the races in our public schools might as well try to dip the Atlantic dry with a teaspoon," he said as Governor in 1956, two years after the Supreme Court school integration ruling. And, as he had promised he would, he signed laws aimed at thwarting that decision...
...Representative John Conyers, a Negro member of the House Judiciary Committee, summed up: "Throughout his public statements runs a consistent theme. He is the only person with the legal experience and skill to consistently outmaneuver the federal courts, Congress and the Executive. He is the thinking man's segregationist." Star witness for the Administration was Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, who argued that Coleman's steady defense of law and order in the hostile atmosphere of Mississippi was "worth a hundred campaign speeches." And, like President Johnson, Coleman himself admitted past "mistakes," said he now believed that "separation...
...Thornberry, and by a former Mississippi Governor (1956-60), James P. Coleman. Thornberry, a federal district judge in Austin since 1963, succeeded Johnson in the House of Representatives in 1948 when Lyndon was elected a Senator. In the House, he was a Johnson-Rayburn-type moderate. Coleman is a segregationist-but far from a rabid redneck. He was a supporter of John Kennedy, lost a 1963 attempt to return to the governorship after his opponents labeled him "a weak sister trying to find the middle ground on segregation." Thornberry will replace retired Judge Joseph C. Hutcheson Jr., who usually voted...
Throughout the debate, it was apparent that the forces of the segregationist South were beaten-and knew it. "The way things are," North Carolina Democrat Sam Ervin said wryly, "I don't think I could even get a denunciation of the Crucifixion in the bill." When Georgia's Richard Brevard Russell, field general for the segregationists in a dozen civil rights battles of yore, returned to the Senate chamber from a long illness the day before the cloture motion came to a vote, he needed no more than a glance to see that the cause was hopeless...
...Supreme Court reversed Mardon's conviction with a brief order explaining that all such sit-in cases have been rendered moot by the 1964 Civil Rights Act. "We are glad Miss Walker's long ordeal is over," rejoiced the Atlanta Constitution in an editorial slap at Segregationist Judge Pye. "We only wish she had not had to go to Washington to get justice...