Word: weltner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Southerner, a recently published book in which he excoriated the stultifying influence of racism on the South, Georgia Congressman Charles Longstreet Weltner warned: "The South can lose again, just as we have lost for the past century. If Jim Crow is our goal, and equal justice our enemy, the South will lose...
...Democrat Weltner, 38, the victory of White Supremacist Lester Maddox in Georgia's Democratic runoff primary last month signaled a crushing setback for racial moderation-and for the South. Rather than support Maddox for Governor in the November election, Weltner last week jettisoned his promising career in Congress...
...liberal Atlanta Democratic leaders Mayor Ivan Allen and Congressman Charles Weltner have both roundly denounced Maddox. Weltner, who resigned his office rather than obey the party oath to Maddox, stated that he will write in a third choice on his ballot...
Though the House committee's strategy was to hit first at what Georgia Democrat Charles Weltner called the Klan's "Achilles' heel"-its murky financial practices-there were hints that in coming weeks it would also be looking into the more lurid aspects of K.K.K. imperialism. Dragon Jones was questioned in vain about cross burnings and racist handbills that have been distributed in North Carolina. Kornegay took refuge in the familiar four amendments when confronted with a newspaper story quoting him as advocating "mass killings in Selma...
...weeks ago, you did a particularly perceptive job of explaining Congressman Gerald Ford of Michigan's Fifth District [Jan. 15] and now you have done it again with Congressman Charles Weltner of Atlanta [Feb. 12]. They are both intelligent, sincere, honest, and above all, make sense. The Republican Party and the Democratic Party need more men like them, and so does...