Word: atlanta
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Watchdog Onus. In some larger cities, blacks now have the power to turn an election their way by voting as a bloc, much as have labor unions, ethnic groups and businessmen. No one knows that better than Atlanta Mayor Sam Massell, who was elected with more than 90% of the black vote last fall-fully half of his overall total. Much of the rest of his support came from labor unions, attracted by the promises of economic progress held out by the liberal Massell. In New Orleans last April, Mayor Moon Landrieu was elected on a similar black-labor-liberal...
...Northeastern press seems to imply is that the rest of the nation's press remains hearty in its approbation. In fact, approval and criticism know no geographical boundaries. The New York Daily News, for example, remains one of Mr. Nixon's greatest fans, while the Atlanta Constitution, the Milwaukee Journal and the San Francisco Chronicle oppose Administration policies...
Barbers' Razors. In some less urbane areas than Atlanta, the racial tensions seemed more ominous and violence prone than in the early days of the civil rights movement. In Jackson, where Mississippi state troopers had raked a crowd of black demonstrators with at least 250 shots, killing two, outraged Negroes marched almost daily through the' streets. Rumors grew of more rioting to come, and the public schools were closed. White homeowners rushed to buy guns, and young blacks walked about with long barbers' razors purposely allowed to protrude from their back pockets. Eight ghetto stores were firebombed...
...very., very good chemist") to join Martin Luther King Jr. Williams has since become one of the country's leading civil rights leaders. He was field marshal for the Meredith Mississippi march and the march from Selma to Montgomery, as well as last week's march to Atlanta. TIME Correspondent Peter Range kept pace with him for a time last week as Williams bitterly talked about the events at Augusta, Ga., and Jackson, Miss., and the mood of the civil rights movement in their wake...
...using old techniques with the expectation of new results. People have got to get that ballot and use it. That's going to be our main thrust this summer. But first we have to get the people out. We wanted to get people to Atlanta on Saturday, but they wouldn't come because of fear. So we're undergoing an educational process. You know, after the voting-rights bill was passed, the only place where people crowded up by the thousands to register was in Alabama−because of the educational process that took place...