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...changed much since. Generations-old Greek Revival homes grace the white residential district; the Hotel Albert, built with slave labor and patterned after the Doge's Palace in Venice, is a first-rate inn. But the symbol of Selma is Sheriff James Clark, 43, a bully-boy segregationist who leads a club-swinging, mounted posse of deputy volunteers, many of them Ku Klux Klansmen...
...state who have committed unpardonable criminal acts has been exploited by unfriendly national news media." They also included 41 Mississippi Negroes, telling of the civil rights abuses they have suffered in their native state. But the plight of Negroes in Mississippi was perhaps most strikingly illustrated by a white segregationist: G. H. Hood, voting registrar of Humphreys County in the western part of Mississippi...
...their hired flacks reeled off torrents of vituperative copy. To impress the union's 200,000 Negroes, McDonald's supporters put out juxtaposed photographs, taken at different times, showing Abel and Alabama's Governor George Wallace shaking hands with the same man-implying a link between Segregationist Wallace and Abel. To impress Roman Catholic members, Abel supporters spread reminders that Catholic McDonald had been divorced. The McDonald camp turned out a million hard-hat stickers emblazoned with the inspired slogan ALL THE WAY WITH DAVID J. Abel's handlers issued buttons in praise of his entire...
...That segregationist member of the Newhouse newspaper chain ran a fair and reasoned summary of his critique, then carried the discussion onto the editorial page. "Mr. Frankel is astounded," said the News, "that the Alabama lawyers' periodical over ten years presents only one side of, let us say, the issue of desegregation vis-a-vis the Supreme Court. He has searched, he says, in vain for publication evidence that Alabama attorneys do other than roundly condemn the high court. Is there only one lawyers' viewpoint here in Alabama as regards the court and this general issue...
...continuing concern for mankind at large. In this collection of essays and letters, Merton punctures the white liberal's complacent participation in the civil rights movement as a kind of self-indulgence that is of "no interest to the Negro." In his view, what the Southern segregationist realizes, and the Northern liberal fails to grasp, is that with full and meaningful integration of the Negro, "society is going to be radically changed." However, says Merton, before the Negro revolution ever nears fulfillment, the liberal will respond by "goosestepping down Massachusetts Avenue." If this vision seems extravagant, the author argues...