Word: walkerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Birmingham. It was while he was in his post-Albany eclipse that King began planning for his most massive assault on the barricades of segregation. The target: Birmingham, citadel of blind, diehard segregation. King's lieutenant, Wyatt Tee Walker, has explained the theory that governs King's planning: "We've got to have a crisis to bargain with. To take a moderate approach, hoping to get white help, doesn't work...
...owes Abraham Lincoln." That was at best an oversimplification; nevertheless, because of Connor, the riots seared the front pages of the world press, outraged millions of people. Everywhere, King's presence, in the pulpit or at rallies, was demanded. But while he preached nonviolence, violence spread. "Freedom Walker" William Moore was shot and killed in Alabama. Mississippi's N.A.A.C.P. Leader Medgar Evers was assassinated outside his home. There was violence in Jackson, Miss...
...Nixon, 40 for Kennedy. More significantly a large volume of anti-Catholic literature was circulated. A week before the campaign's close, a sermon by Baptist Minister W. A. Criswell appeared on the front-page of the News; it attacked Catholicism. A number of rightists (including General Edwin Walker and H.L. Hunt) live in Dallas. Oilman Hunt publishes the hate-filled American Mercury, the one-time mouthpiece of H. L. Mencken. In addition, he sponsors the nationally broadcast radio show, Lifeline...
...walk through a Dallas hotel." More recently Ambassador Stevenson confronted Dallas' wild wooly right after a U. N. Day speech to the local United Nations Association. Leaving a standing ovation inside, he found several hundred pickets outside fresh from a "U. S. Day Rally", addressed by General Walker. Before reaching his car, Stevenson was struck by two pickets and spat upon by a third...
Married. Lewis Bergman ("Bud") Maytag, 75, who inherited a big share of Iowa's washing-machine fortune, but leaves the business to his nephew Fred, devotes himself to golf promotions and his 13,000-acre Alabama quail-shooting preserve; and Elizabeth Walker Carey, 49, former receptionist to Colorado's Governor John A. Love; both for the second time; in Colorado Springs...