Word: sumter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trade proposals, and his health care bill. In shelving the President's proposal for an Urban Affairs Department, the House Rules Committee fired the first shot in the expected Congressional battle over that program, though on an unexpected front. The action resembled somewhat the South's firing on Fort Sumter 101 years ago: it began a struggle which had to come, but came as a bit of a surprise...
...that in less than twelve months we shall be in the midst of a bloody war." Mississippi's Jefferson Davis, blind in one eye and haggard with headaches, was a moderate who could say to his wife, even after the Confederacy under his presidency had fired on Fort Sumter: "Separation is not yet, of necessity, final. There has been no blood spilled more precious than that of a mule...
...impeccable Charleston gentleman with an ante-bellum mind, Editor Waring fires on Fort Sumter every morning. He applauds Citizens Councils, mourns the fact that "even some Southerners-people who should know better-are saying that integration of the races is inevitable." As for the rest of the world ("the whiter they are the better the country"), his newspaper sees it in black and white. One recent editorial was titled "Who Cares What Asia Thinks?" Another, on South Africa, "that outpost of Western civilization," sympathized with white cops "whose lives were endangered by hordes of savages in modern dress." When Kenya...
...fuss through Virginia and North Carolina. At each stop Negroes used white rest rooms, sat at white lunch counters. There was a brief scuffle at Rock Hill, S.C.; two Negro riders were arrested and quickly released in Winnsboro, S.C. Then came another quiet stretch. No incidents took place in Sumter. S.C., Camden, S.C., Augusta, Ga. and Atlanta...
...Sumter, S.C., local and state police mustered in regimental proportions to block the path of angry Negro students at Morris College (Baptist) who intended to march downtown protesting the earlier arrest of seven students and one faculty member. After a tense impasse when patrol cars twice stopped the marchers at campus gates, the students dispersed...