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Moreover, religious diversity adds to the complexity. The two largest religious groups in the state, the Baptists and a dissident Baptist sect called the Church of Christ, are conservative and segregationist no matter where they are found; the Jews, on the other hand, although numerically small, are very powerful economically, and their influence is almost always enlightened by Northern standards...
...Faubus is no segregationist--or any other "ist," except when it's opportune. At one time or another, he has sought to convince almost everybody that what was nearest their hearts was nearest his. He has succeeded brilliantly but his success will not out-live him. He has already lost favor with the business community, which took a heavy loss in the three years after "Little Rock." There will be no Faubus "dynasty," to rival the Talmadges and the Longs...
Among the likely Democratic candidates: U.S. Representative Dale Alford, an ophthalmologist who became a career segregationist; ex-Governor (1949-53) Sid McMath, a moderate who prides himself on his progressive attitudes on most issues; Attorney General J. Frank Holt, also a moderate; former State Senator Marvin Melton, onetime president of the Arkansas Chamber of Commerce; Kenneth Coffelt, an out-and-out segregationist who has promised to "expose the scandals in the Faubus Administration." Even Arkansas' moribund Republican Party hopes to present a serious candidate, and G.O.P. National Committeeman Winthrop Rockefeller, younger brother of New York's Nelson Rockefeller...
...demands segregation," says New Orleans' Mrs. B. J. Gaillot Jr., president of segregationist Save Our Nation Inc. She is a Roman Catholic, and when Archbishop Joseph Francis Rummel, 85, ordered full desegregation of New Orleans parochial schools for next fall, Mrs. Gaillot responded with picketing and loud protest. She was not alone. Leander Perez, influential political boss of Plaquemines Parish and also a Catholic, suggested reprisals against the clergy: "Cut off their water. Quit giving them money to feed their fat bellies." And State Representative Rodney Buras of New Orleans proclaimed that he would fight Arch, bishop Rummel...
Parochial schools enroll half the white pupils in New Orleans. After Rummel's order, segregationist Catholics considered transferring their children to public schools. But in a landmark decision last week, New Orleans' Federal District Judge J. Skelly Wright took a severe look at New Orleans' public schools, which still have admitted only twelve Negroes to six previously all-white schools. Judge Wright agreed with 102 Negro petitioners that the city school board is hardly desegregating "with all deliberate speed." Wright forbade the board from further use of the Louisiana pupil-placement law, and ordered desegregation...