Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tracing the sources of change, Silver praised the Civil Rights Law and the increased attentiveness of Federal marshals and the FBI, but he gave chief credit to the young civil rights workers of the Council of Federated Organizations...
Addressing a small Ford Hall Forum audience, Silver isolated this summer as "the time the melting began that won't cool until every Mississippian enjoys his rights...
...Silver noted that the White Citizens Council is undergoing "a quick and rapid decline." The extremists of the group, he said, are factioning off into the Ku Klux Klan and the Society for the Preservation of the White Race. The moderates have simply stopped paying their dues...
...Silver observed, the support for the council is growing in the North: "The Jackson Council gets $5 donations from all over the country, mostly from California--only thing that keeps our boys going...
...Silver finds many northerners as narrow-minded as any Southern segregationist, and he berated last night's audience for "blaming Harlem hoodlumism on environment, which is right, but refusing to find environment behind the poor Klansman who burns churches...