Word: integrationist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since last fall, more than 100 complaints against Mississippi have been sent to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission in Washington. They tell of hard-boiled local politicians who coldly ignore Negroes asking to vote, midnight terrorists flinging everything from Molotov cocktails to bags of garbage in efforts to intimidate integrationist forces, welfare officials denying Government-supplied food to needy Negro children...
...Southern Negroes work to gain equal rights, Southern segregationists become increasingly frightened. This is true throughout the South, but especially so in Mississippi. Segregationists channel their fear into violence. Most integrationist groups are non-violent, and the Government's agencies are ineffective. This kind of situation can naturally lead to real pogroms, if it lasts. It probably won't last. Among Negro leaders, the tactic of violence in self-defense has become increasingly acceptable. Among Negro people, the constraints of ghetto life have become increasingly intolerable. If the Government does not act to enforce the law of integration, then Negroes...
...integration is none enforced soon, Harlem will explode. In New York City this month a group of moderate whites and Negroes have been trying to organize 100,000 Harlem residents to march peacefully through the city, as a protest, a threat, and a moral equivalent to war. Some student integrationist groups have recently been discussing violence in the North or South not an an abstract idea or a tactic open to debate; but as a probable occurrence over which no one will have much control...
Spot radio commercials proclaimed that a vote against Marvin Griffin was a vote for Negroes next door and on the playing fields of Georgia. Ex-Governor Griffin, running for a return trip to Atlanta, assured an audience that there was only one way to handle integrationist "agitators." Said he: "There ain't but one thing to do and that is to cut down a blackjack sapling and brain 'em and nip 'em in the bud." Griffin hastily added that he didn't mean to be taken literally-but obviously, in some circles...
...whose plat form is prayer, but who doesn't have one in this contest. Only Carl Sanders. 37. a good-looking state senator, seems to have a chance against Griffin. Sanders has the backing of a host of anti-Griffinites, including Georgia's key newspapers (the "Atlanta integrationist press," as Griffin calls it). Sanders also figures to benefit by the fact that Georgia's county-unit voting system has at last been overthrown by the courts. In years past, state elections in Georgia were decided not on popular votes but on a complex system where by each...