Word: integrationist
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...broad terms, Stampp sees both men acting in consonance with the political convictions they held before they rose to power. Lincoln, the Whig, was always a Unionist, never an integrationist. Before the war he had opposed slavery, but he had wanted to colonize the slaves in Africa rather than to liberate them in America. He never conceived of Negroes as equal, fully capable participants in American society. His greatest concern after the war was indeed to bind up the nation's wounds through clemency for the South. he also intended to revive Whig strength by restoring the political prominence...
Speaking at Christ Church's midwinter dinner, Pettigrew stressed the dilemma within the Church. Rectors who support the Church integrationist idelogy, he said, risk losing money and members. If they moderate their positiins, however, they sacrifice ideals, he added...
...said, had been rendered all but helpless because the state is "filled with water moccasins, rattlesnakes, and red-neck sheriffs, and they are all in the same category, as far as I am concerned." In even more vitriolic style, the FBI chief attacked the South's most revered integrationist, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., who, even as Hoover delivered his blast, was in the Bahamas working on his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, to be delivered in Oslo...
...giant Georgia goober, deadpanned: "I want to tell you that Lyndon Johnson and Hubert Humphrey like peanuts enough to make the peanut economy worth more than just peanuts." Then he laced into Goldwater and tried to convince his segregationist Southern audience that Barry is some sort of secret integrationist...
Married. Gloria Richardson, 42, the nation's No. 1 woman integrationist, spearhead of the civil rights demonstrations in Cambridge, Md.; and Frank Dandridge, 32, Negro freelance photographer from Manhattan; she for the second time; in Norwich, Conn...