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...into the class room. In the 95 degree heat of the South Carolina lowland summer, they voluntarily attended classes six hours a day. They started classes themselves when the teachers were late. They stayed after classes were supposed to end, talking about Raisin in the Sun, set theory, Storm Thurmond, and Malcolm X. Most of them did more homework in those six weeks than they had in the previous year. None droped...
...Negro legislation strong enough to wean the Negroes from their near-total loyalty to the Democratic ticket in 1964. But while the Republicans choose which horn of the dilemma on which to impale themselves, they can take solace in one thought--even though the G.O.P. is the party of Thurmond and Goldwater, and of the five states of the Black Belt, the Democrats are still the party of Wallace and Paul Johnson as well as of the Civil Rights Act. That image will take some dispelling...
...Civil Rights Act for the party whose presidential candidate voted against the act in the United States Senate. Allegiances endure far beyond the causes which gave them birth and it will probably be much longer than ten to fifteen years before Negroes stop identifying the Republican Party with Strom Thurmond...
...figurehead. As Wallace stormed across the land, condemning the Marshall Plan, aid to Greece and Turkey, and U.S. resistance to Soviet pressure on Berlin, he became Pravda's favorite American. Wallace won only 1,157,000 votes out of 49 million, trailed Harry Truman, Thomas Dewey and Strom Thurmond. He carried not a single state...
...conservative in economics and moderate on civil rights." He punctuated his conversation with invocations of being "soundly conservative" and "making conservatism more respectable." But he jumped back from any theory of ideologically-based parties and landed in the we'll-take-what-we-can-get camp. "Sure, I want Thurmond to be a Republican. I don't agree with him on civil rights, but if it's a choice between him and a Democrat who has the same position on racial issues, I'll take Thurmond. We need his vote." It was civil rights that gave Nixon trouble...