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...Boston a violently racist organization, ROAR, fights integration of schools and neighborhoods and organizes vigilante groups of "marshals" in the tradition of the Ku Klux Klan...
...first glance, this week's contest for Senate majority leader looks like no contest at all: a dour conservative from West Virginia who is shadowed by past membership in the Ku Klux Klan, v. an exuberant former Vice President who is esteemed as an elder statesman of the Democratic Party. Yet the heavy betting favorite is shrewd Robert C. Byrd, 58, and not Minnesota's liberal crusader, 65-year-old Hubert Humphrey...
More and more, that conversation concerns tomorrow and not yesterday. Integration has a way to go in the South, but the ugly confrontations of the '50s and '60s, the bombings and Klan revivals, the school riots and statehouse harangues seem as remote as the Dred Scott decision. It is up North, in staid Boston, that the races clash and skirmish. Little Rock, Ark., scene of former Governor Orval Faubus' strident segregationist harangues, has thoroughly integrated its schools...
...employed busing, but primarily to move black students-30% of the roughly 115,000 students-from throughout the county to inner-city all-black schools. During that period, civil rights demonstrations by black groups prompted a violent reaction from the conservative working-class whites. In 1960 a Ku Klux Klan "ax-handle Saturday" resulted in a riot in which blacks who were peacefully picketing for integrated restaurants were severely beaten...
...young who go away and come back, the big news 20 years later is, "The Dairy Queen put in a new parking lot." As for social vision, Bradleyville sees little beyond the astigmatic pathos of the Knights of the White Magnolia, a secret order that makes the Ku Klux Klan seem leftwing...