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Only two states-Alabama and Mississippi-still approach unanimity in their bitter segregationist stand; the next toughest is Louisiana. But there are signs that even these last strongholds are crumbling. Much of the credit for the change must go to businessmen, who were troubled by evidence of economic damage: a sharp decline in the acquisition of new industries and the formation of new jobs, at least partly due to the disastrous publicity provided by the likes of Governor Wallace. Alarmed and irritated by Selma, leaders of Alabama commerce and industry recently called for protection of voting rights...
...When the Klan protested his sensible action, 15 citizens burned an oil-soaked "Z" at an intersection to express their opinion of the Klan's worth-zero. The Governors' attitude is perhaps best summed up by Georgia's Carl Sanders, who says, "I'm a segregationist, but I'm no damn fool...
...some significant omens: at least two Southern U.S. Congressmen, one from Georgia and the other from Tennessee, owe their election to Negro votes; a Mississippi politician, thinking like many of his colleagues about the Negroes who will vote for the first time in 1966, contemplates running against a segregationist Congressman and explains his strategy simply: "I'd get the nigger vote." The cynicism of that view does not diminish its importance...
Died. Sidney Carr Mize, 77, federal judge for the Southern District of Mississippi since 1937, a deep-dyed segregationist who signed the 1962 order admitting Negro Student James Meredith to Ole Miss only after the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals demanded it; after collapsing on the bench a month ago; in Gulf port, Miss...
...ambitious program to improve the quality of education without raising the state's 3% sales tax. He instituted an extensive money-saving program in state purchasing practices, even convinced the legislature that it should pay cash for school buses to save the interest charges. Although he is a segregationist, Russell is relatively popular with Negroes: he was the first South Carolina Governor in modern times to invite Negroes to his inauguration ceremonies, and he saw to it that the integration of Clemson College and the University of South Carolina was carried out in peace. He has insisted on meticulous...