Word: southernism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This is the first in a series on Southern blacks. The author spent the summer as a reporter for the Southern Courier, a civil rights newspaper founded in 1965 by Harvard graduates...
...houses are probably the most shocking part. In the 1930's, in the depths of the depression, James Agee and Walker Evans went to Alabama to photograph and write about Southern rural poverty. Several of the buildings in the picture section of their book, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, still exist. Thirty years of occupancy have not improved the buildings. And where the buildings are different from the ones Agee and Evans saw, they are not much better...
...Southern "black shack" is made out of wood, that has become gray from several years of exposure. There is no glass in the windows, or plumbing or electricity in the house. The shaded front porch is where most of the people spend their time, mainly out of necessity, since there is not enough room in the house. Behind the house there is a small wooden outhouse underneath the house there are chickens, rats, and black children...
Except for dovish Sen. Joseph D. Tydings's personal organization, anti-administration liberals are unorganized. Suburban Washington's Montgomery County served as a McCarthy base in this politically Southern state where George Wallace did so well in the 1964 presidential primary vote (forty-two per cent). Baltimore is still very much a machine stronghold. New Democratic Coalition national forces hope to organize a liberal-reform group in a coalition with an emerging black leadership before the 1970 election to help re-elect Tydings and give some clout to lightweight liberals...
Problems of building effective coalitions, maintaining one's philosophical commitment to the New Politics, maintaining liberal participation in precinct level drudgery in machine states, and dealing with the polarized Southern parties are the main problems faced by Gore, Lowenstein, Julian Bond, and their nascent New Democratic Coalition. They have forty-seven months to solve them