Word: southernism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rejection on the Hill. In the area of civil rights, a prime concern for any Attorney General, Mitchell, Nixon's campaign director and chief architect of his celebrated Southern strategy, has created the impression that he is trying to placate the white South. He is credited with the recent decision to ease school-desegregation guidelines. He was responsible for drafting the Administration's voting rights bill, which would have done away with the current law in favor of a much weaker measure - and was unceremoniously rejected by the House Judiciary Committee last week. On Capitol Hill, Mitchell...
...actually puts his ideas into practice. He gives the appearance of sincerity when he insists, despite considerable adverse evidence, that he will not weaken the federal pressure for racial integration. "Watch what we do instead of listening to what we say," he cryptically told a group of 30 Southern blacks who were protesting the Administration's new school-desegregation guidelines. Though Mitchell's image as the Administration's heavy may prove hard to live down, he may be somewhat miscast in the part. Some of his colleagues even claim that he can crack a joke...
...once announced to Fonda that "the first movie I make will have to win at Cannes." But his appearances in films belied the boast. The mad stare, the simian stance could have been reproduced, everyone thought, by a dozen actors. Everyone but Peter Fonda. He persuaded Terry Southern (Dr. Strangelove) to collaborate on the Easy Rider script, and talked American International Pictures, creators of the beach and motorcycle placebos, into producing a film starring nobodies and directed by a weirdo. When A.I.P. refused to put up enough money to launch the project, Fonda made the ultimate rich...
...Civil Rights Movement benefited more the northerners involved than it uplifted oppressed Negroes (as they were called). Very little of southern life was changed in return for the vast amount of energy the crusaders put into getting there. Imagine how much money the tens of thousands of people who came down for the Selma march in 1965 spent on gasoline, motel rooms, airplane tickets, restaurants. Millions of dollars, and the cops got the firehoses out as soon as they left...
...Fate willed, worked for The Southern Courier, the civil rights newspaper, during its first two summers in '65 and '66. The Southern Courier represented the ultimate effort of white liberal evangelism. Started by some Harvard CRIMSON editors and funded by a lot of liberal people and their organizations in the Northeast, it was an attempt to expose what was wrong with what true with the understood result that the governmental system would then have to correct itself...