Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more and more U.S. churchgoers, that oldtime religion is losing its appeal. A trend toward more ritual and formality in church is on the rise, and it is now invading even the Bible Belt. Many a once plain Methodist church in Georgia, Alabama and other Southern states goes in for robed minister and choirs, stained-glass windows, sermons on theology and the life of Jesus rather than hellfire and repentance; a few even have acolytes. To some Southern Methodists, it is high time to make a stand against this creeping formalism. Said the Rev. Pierce Harris of Atlanta...
...nine Negro youths were arrested for allegedly raping two itinerant white prostitutes in an Alabama freight car, were dragged through interminable trials that included all the cliches of racial conflict: openly bigoted judges, brutal cops, a sullen courthouse mob. The case aroused nationwide protests against the South's double standard of justice, encouraged the Communists to exploit the racial bitterness and provoke a bloody race incident in Alabama. After six years in prison, Roy Wright and three of his companions were finally freed after the state dropped charges. Under public pressure, four others were eventually paroled, and one escaped...
...Governor, Patterson had to raise money for his state: he went to New York, worked out financing details on a $60 million state bond issue with Lehman Bros., the famed Manhattan international banking house. Because the Lehmans are Jews, Governor Patterson's dealings aroused Alabama's anti-Semites. In June, Patterson spoke to the state legislature, expressed sentiments that seemed heresy to Alabama's rabid segregationists. Said he: "We cannot afford to crawl back into a hole as far as public education is concerned." On a trip to Washington, Patterson met Massachusetts' Senator John Kennedy, whom...
...helped spin, retorted a bit helplessly. "Kennedy is a friend," he said, "and so far as I know, I'm not being used as a guinea pig by anybody." As for the schools, he returned to his old, pre-gubernatorial stumping grounds. Said he: "No Alabama school will be integrated unless they pass over my body...
...public schools, thus diverting the U.S. Supreme Court's desegregation order. The next step is setting up private schools by giving state tuition grants to all school-age children (though not necessarily Negroes). Already the plan has been made possible by new laws in six states-Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, Virginia. Other states are considering it. What few seem to be considering is the consequences...