Word: southerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...incident sounded reminiscent of Civil Rights' days of the early 1960's: a group of black college students from an all-Negro, Southern college attempting to integrate a segregated business establishment. But the scene was Orangeburg, South Carolina--not Greensboro or Selma--and the climax of the demonstration sounded grimly like the outcome of the summer riots: three South Carolina State students dead and more than 60 wounded by the police and National Guard...
Violence around Negro campuses is nothing new. Southern white police have always held a special contempt for Negro college students. As evidenced last year on many black campuses--the most notable being Fiske, Tennessee State, and Texas Southern--police have used appalling force to squelch black student activism. Even recently police have encountered little resistance from Negro college administrators who have seemed embarrassed by their students' actions. Their attitude has been more to condemn student political activity moving into the neighboring community than be outraged at subsequent police invasions of the campus...
...police's hostility toward the Negro college is linked to their resentment of the increasingly progressive--often radical--role it plays in Southern, black political activism. Governor McNair's condemnation of the violence was typical of earlier Southern white responses to the changing mood of the Negro campus. He was quick in summarily denouncing the influence of Black Power advocates...
...growth of greater militancy in the civil rights movement, this has led many students to look beyond their campus to the black community as their primary area of concern. With black colleges often situated near or within predominantly Negro communities, this combination, at least in the eyes of Southern police, is volatile and threatening...
...recurrence of police brutality on Southern campuses in the past two years, while laying bare police intimidation, has at the same time catalyzed increased political activity. These students recognize clearly enough that the college campus no longer enjoys a privileged status in the eyes of the Southern police force. So that now the black college student need go no further than his own campus to realize that his plight is the same as any other Negro's suffering at the hands of the Southern police establishment...