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...Delta. White people are living with that reality just fine. Today nobody can get away with racist politics in the state." Indeed, who would have thought, forty years ago, that a Senator from Mississippi would be forced to go on his knees and beg for forgiveness for harboring segregationist views...
Lott has been under fire since last week, when he declared that his state was proud to have voted for Strom Thurmond's segregationist ticket in 1948. "And if the rest of the country had followed our lead," Lott added in remarks at Thurmond's 100th birthday party, "we wouldn't have had all these problems over the years either." Lott has since apologized, and on Thursday, President Bush said the apology was deserved. "Any suggestion that the segregated past was acceptable or positive is offensive and it is wrong," Bush declared...
...injure my typing fingers since I hadn’t kept them in typing shape. Looking back, I’m glad the Ivy Presidents put me on that seven-week hiatus so I could re-enter the Harvard I had so clearly been ignoring due to my journalistic segregationist tendencies...
...from Australia to the family home with her ailing husband. "My late husband said: 'I was born here and I want to die here,'" she explains. "And somehow I'm just more comfortable here now." The weeds, say the settlers, are yet to choke the ideal of a gently segregationist shelter on which McCluskieganj was built. "This was my mother's house," says Kitty Teixeire. "How can I leave...
...first-degree murder in the deaths of four young girls in the 1963 bombing of a Birmingham, Ala., church; in Birmingham. Sentenced to life in prison under 1963 Alabama law, Cherry, who bragged about his deed, was the third man to be convicted of the crime that shamed pro-segregationist whites and galvanized civil rights leaders (a fourth died before being tried). Of the 39-year march toward justice, Sarah Collins Rudolph, the sister of victim Addie Mae Collins, said, "It was a long time...