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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...
...Breed." Though he had handily won renomination to a third term only three weeks earlier, Weltner explained at an Atlanta press conference that he was withdrawing from his campaign for re-election because he could not honor the loyalty oath that requires all Georgia Democratic candidates to support the state party ticket. Declared Weltner: "Today the one man in our state who exists as the very symbol of violence and oppression is the Democratic nominee for the highest office in Georgia. His entire public career is directly contrary to my deepest convictions and beliefs. And while I cannot violate...
...Weltner, a handsome, fiercely independent lawyer of distinguished Southern lineage (his great-grandfather, Gen eral Thomas R. R. Cobb, wrote the Confederate constitution and was killed at Fredericksburg), personified "the new breed" of Southern Congressman -and was proud of the label. Elected to Congress in 1962 as a result of a court-ordered redistricting that gave his Atlanta district a 25% Negro vote, Weltner, in his first major House speech, indicted Southern white leaders who, he charged, "have stood by, leaving the field to reckless and violent...
...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...