Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CIVIL RIGHTS: Questioned about the defiance by Alabama officials of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission (see The South), President Eisenhower disappointingly declined "to get into the basic question." He did describe the Alabama situation as "a rather sad sort of thing," adding: "What I would like to get help in pleading for throughout the country is respect...
...facing each other across a brace of microphones and a polished table in Montgomery, Ala. were deeply disturbed. Farmer Aaron Sellers, of Bullock County, a Negro, told of six attempts to register as an Alabama voter and six failures, including a time when he was warned, "Get the hell out of here." Behind the table, as Sellers' testimony ended, the president of the University of Notre Dame leaned grimly forward. Asked the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh: "Mr. Sellers, you going to continue to attempt to register?" Answered Sellers: "Yes, I'm determined to register." Said Father Hesburgh, smiling...
...Bull" Connor is a big voice in Birmingham, where a smelter economy, stamped onto Alabama's rural culture, makes a melting pot of raw men as well as raw metals. Birmingham, settled six years after the Civil War, is no repository of genteel Southern tradition and or moderation, has been keyed to violence, whether labor troubles in the 1930s or desegregation in the 1950s. And Birmingham's white country people, teeming in from piney woods to steel mills, view desegregation less as an abstract threat to be fended off by lawyers than as a specific, bread-and-butter...
...Klux Klan and White Citizens' Councils concentrate unerringly on keeping the moderates silent and leaderless. Method No. 1 : In formers. One of the six men arrested in a Negro castration case turned out to be a Ku Klux Klan captain of intelligence - and a member of Alabama's interracial Council on Human Relations who had sat quietly through all council meetings. Method No. 2: Quick Mobilization. The Citizens' Councils have a chain-telephone-call system that can blanket the city in twelve hours. Method No. 3: Phone Threats. A Presbyterian minister who wrote to the Birmingham News...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10--President Eisenhower has termed it a sad, reprehensible thing for Alabama officials to defy the federal government over voting registration records of Negroes...