Word: southernism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This is the third in a series. The author spent the summer working for the Southern Courier, a civil-rights newspaper based in Montgomery, Alabama...
...trickle of Northerners makes its way down. These Yankees are coming for a special purpose. Instead of looking for the simple amusement they could find in one of the North's Fun Cities, these pioneers are following a dream. They are following one of the two Great Southern Myths that the rest of the nation has concocted for its lower regions, and nearly all of their reaction to the South is determined before they leave, by their choice of which dream to follow...
...Humphrey's desperate problems, there are a few signs that Nixon's lead is not unassailable. Nixon him self is losing votes to Wallace. He is particularly concerned because the Alabamian has become his "major competitor" in such Southern "perimeter" states as Kentucky, Virginia and Florida. "I'm getting 95% of the Republican vote," says Nixon, "but I'm not getting enough of the Democratic vote. That's where Wallace is hurting." To avoid building up the Alabamian, Nixon last week rejected a three-way debate among the major candidates. "I still think the best...
...brand of oppression in the South, Northern whites rampaged against Negroes in riots in New York City; Springfield, Ohio; Greensburg, Ind.; Springfield, Ill.; East St. Louis, Ill.; and Detroit long before Negro upheavals came into vogue. The U.S. Civil Rights Commission counted 2,595 lynchings of Negroes in Southern states between 1882 and 1959. Not one resulted in a white man's conviction. Den nis Clark, writing in the Jesuit magazine America, makes the point that 100 years ago "the Irish were the riot makers of America par excellence...
...turn their schools into segregated ones; and if it did, it would do it more slowly than any other plan. At the same time, the Justice Department and many black lawyers also realized that a new system was needed. So they began yet another legal battle against the sturdy Southern schools...