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...Threats. Only in Alabama was the usual segregationist tirade heard. There, incoming Governor George C. Wallace, 43, who has pledged to "stand in the schoolhouse door" if necessary to prevent integration, cried: "I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever." Wearing two sets of underwear (he insisted they were "Confederate suits," not union suits) beneath his clothes to guard against the Yankee-like cold snap, Wallace threatened a Dixiecrat rebellion. Said he: "We intend to carry our fight for freedom across this nation...
...record on a wall map in his office). He had just about satisfied that yearning when lo and behold, Africa began sprouting a whole bunch of brand-new nations. So off he went to Africa. In Morocco he paused to express a variety of opinions. "Egypt," said the segregationist Senator, "hasn't achieved anything great since the Pharaohs began practicing desegregation with their slaves . . . Ethiopia would have nothing if it weren't for the Italians. Africans will probably get somewhere some day, but it'll take time . . . The only black man I know of with the stuff...
...There is a growing disaffection on the part of Negroes for participation by white people in civil rights activity," he declared. "Unfortunately, the sentiment is that the liberal is the most dangerous white man, even more so than the frank segregationist, because the liberal talks out of both sides of his mouth." He cited the case of Harry Golden, who had a Negro receptionist at the beginning of his journalistic career in Charlotte, N.C. But when his Carolina Israelite began to be read in the South, and many Southerners came to visit him, Golden "promoted" the Negro girl to circulation...
Galphin declared that the segregationist's cry that "legal decrees and court orders do not change the minds and hearts of men" is slowly being proven untrue, with such forces as the sit-ins stimulating a growing "social conscience" on the part of whites...
...middle-class whites who haven't moved away have become more militantly segregationist, Cabarrus adds. "It used to be that the Negroes could visit the white families in town; may be not in the best room, but they were friendly. Now even your old friends among the whites try not to see you on the street. Many Negro families have lost their credit rating in white stores, since the controversy began...