Word: southerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This is the second in a series. The next installment will have anecdotes about Klan meetings, Wallace rallies, and other Southern phenomena...
That kind of violence may be exceptional. But the tension it reveals is not. The Southern school system -- whose violent convulsions marked the beginning of the modern civil rights movement in 1954 -- is bracing for a new showdown. And although Northerners find it hard to understand, this showdown will be far more important than any that have gone before. More than the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision or the spotty efforts to wipe out segregated schools that followed, the 1968 fight to give black children a decent education will determine the Negro's future in the South...
...well, this is a showdown that will pass virtually unnoticed in the North. Things have changed a lot since 1954. Then Northern families could see clearly-cut right and wrong. It wasn't hard to sense that the timid black children were right, and that the thick-necked Southern police were wrong...
Things have changed since then. White suburbanites, feeling the push of black families moving into their neighborhoods, wary of the threatening black men they see rioting in the cities, are now less eager to ram integration down the Southern gullet. George Wallace has found a constituency in the North that Strom Thurmond or Orval Faubus would never have...
...fictional counterpart, and they are, for the most part, splendidly solid. His latest, alas, is not. The Aristocrat is slender and seemingly self-indulgent. It would be slick as well, were it not for Richter's imperturbable sincerity. He presents a caricature of an indomitable spinster straight from Southern romance as if she were a discovery, and his very...