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Instead, Patterson helped set off integrationist movements that last week were spreading throughout the South. In Florida, the N.A.A.C.P. ordered a segregation test of all rail and bus facilities. In New York, CORE headquarters announced that it was sending field secretaries to New Orleans, Jackson and Montgomery. In Nashville, more students were ready to go to Jackson, where the 27 arrested Freedom Riders were fined $200 each and given suspended sentences of 60 days. At week's end, 22 of the 27 were still in jail because they refused to ante up any money...
...when the integrationist bus stopped in Montgomery last week, there was no one to stop the senselessness. An idiot, club-swinging mob of about 100 surged toward the riders. Trying to save a Negro girl from serious injury, John Seigenthaler got clouted from behind...
...does the anti-Southern press, without exception, choose to evade the most fundamental issue of all? The issue is: Does the Southerner, be he white or colored, segregationist or integrationist, have the right to have his voice heard and his experienced and mature judgment considered when what the state will do to and with his own child is decided, or doesn't he? If this right can be denied by arbitrary and unappealable federal fiat, than I beseech you, in the name of God, to tell us what human or civil right remains...
...Taylor campaigned through the flatlands and the Smokies he thumped Estes Kefauver for virtually every integrationist crime except the Emancipation Proclamation, denounced him for turning his back on Tennessee and the South by voting for the civil rights bill in the Senate last spring. "If I had been in the Senate, there would have been 19 instead of 18 Senators voting against the civil rights bill. Every Democratic Congressman from Tennessee voted against that civil rights bill, but Senator Kefauver voted for it.* Every state is entitled to two Senators. New York has two Senators to represent the people there...
Under local segregationist pressure, the Kiwanis Club of Greenville, S.C. canceled a speech, booked early last April, by North Carolina Integrationist Harry (For 2$ Plain) Golden, who took the wave-off more or less philosophically: "I was really surprised. Just a little speech. I wasn't going to be rude or disrespectful. I was merely going to talk about the South, the Jews, the race issues, the moral issues in integration...