Word: supremacists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American Legion and Governor Barnett, to "clean up our textbooks" [May 16]: if the great enlightened state of Mississippi considers its educators less capable of deciding what is and is not to be taught in the schools than a combination of hysterical old women, myopic "Don Quixotes," prejudiced supremacist pressure groups and their puppets, I pity the next generation of Mississippi's children-condemned to a blinding, stifling ignorance...
...ought to be against anything in our textbooks that would teach subversion or integration," cried fiery Ross Barnett, a white supremacist who happens to be Governor of Mississippi. Last week Barnett got a new blunderbuss to crush the forces of darkness: he took over the selection of all public-school textbooks in Mississippi. No other U.S. Governor can boast such power...