Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...committee then sent police to arrest Smith at the plush downtown Hilton Inn where he was addressing Louisiana's first integrated Bar Association meeting. He was marched out of the hall before the eyes of the country's most eminent civil rights lawyers, and sent to jail, charged with violating the state's Communist Control...
...Smith, relaxing in an armchair and filling the room with the wild cherry aroma of his pipe tobacco, did not feel powerless after his defeat. His unsuccessful campaign created a potentially devastating base of support--a coalition among white workers, Negroes, and intellectuals. "We have created something to work from, whether it's me or somebody else who runs next time. My job is to get the working class, the Negro and the intellectual together and screw the middle class...
...radical grass roots organizer even then," he says. He ran for elector of the Progressive Party in district five and spent 10,000 dollars on the campaign, winning a total of 500 votes. "And those I got by trading on my grandfather's name, also a Smith," he chuckles. "I told Wallace we could have bought more votes with that money...
...probably not until October of 1963 that he became a favorite target fro any Louisiana politician low on controversial issues. That October the local committee on subversive activities suddenly ransacked the offices of the Southern Conference Educational Fund (considered the white equivalent to SNCC). Smith was treasurer of SCEF...
Columnist Drew Pearson suggested that Smith should be investigated because he had been elected Vice President of the National Lawyers Guild, "a known Communist front," and because he had attended the second anniversary of Castro's revolution and returned "singing Castro's praises." Smith did not know of the Act "and if I had I would not have registered," he says. The case eventually went to the U.S. Supreme Court and an unfavorable decision would have meant thirty years in jail, but the Court ruled the law unconstitutional...