Word: integrationist
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...emphasize the travails of the South, an integrationist postman named William Moore, walking from Chattanooga, Tenn. to Jackson, Miss, to protest segregation, was shot and killed on a lonely Alabama highway. President Kennedy called the slaying an ''outrageous crime," and Alabama's Wallace offered a $1,000 reward for the murderer's capture...
...death, Moore had been stopped by an investigator from the Alabama State Police. "I asked him to call off his walk or at least to take off the integrationist signs he was wearing," the investigator later told a New York Times reporter. "I warned him about the racial situation in Alabama but he wouldn't listen. He told me in a very nice way that he wanted to prove something and couldn't if he turned back." Half an hour later Moore was dead...
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...