Word: racialization
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...dawn broke over Montgomery next day, tension lay thickly beneath an apparent calm. Thousands of Negroes walked to work through the rain in a nonviolent demonstration. Then, at week's end, Alabama's Governor James Folsom called for a Bi-Racial Commission to try to work out some new ways of putting the pieces back together in a city that would somehow never be the same again...
...decision, Congress would be trying to fulfill a function for which it is eminently unsuited. A history of painful episodes indicates that Congress is not the arena in which to settle matters of race relations. The Powell Amendment is an attempt to make the Congress the arbiter of inter-racial antagonisms in the South--a role it cannot play...
...Eisenhower Administration's accomplishments ("Prosperity without war, full employment outside of uniform, and security without regimentation and control"), Nixon spoke of great gains in civil rights. Said he: "And, speaking for a unanimous Supreme Court, the great Republican Chief Justice, Earl Warren, has ordered an end to racial segregation in the nation's schools." Northern Democrats soon charged that Nixon was dragging the high court into politics; Southern Democrats cried that his statement proved the school decision was political. The New York Times's even-handed Pundit Arthur Krock, who praised Nixon's "otherwise well-documented...
...Deep South settles down to face the tremendous problems of racial integration, the temptation increases on the part of eager politicians to exploit inevitable clashes for political gain. Already, in the regrettable Miss Lucy affair, remarks by certain candidates for national office show that it is not difficult to turn the harsh noises from the South into appealing words for the Northern voter. These statements are certain to damage the cause of interstatements are certain to damage the cause of integration, and if the candidates are unable to keep their discussion of the problem restrained, the whole subject of integration...
Against this strident tone a new Jackson daily, the State Times (TIME, March 7), tried to sound a more moderate note on racial issues. When the paper started about a year ago, Editor Norman Bradley, an alumnus of the liberal Chattanooga Times, played desegregation news calmly, sometimes chided the state for abuses and injustices committed in the name of segregation. But the paper's directors opposed his policy, and he quit in December to return to the Chattanooga Times as its executive editor. Since he left, the State Times has been tugging almost as hard as Sullens to hold...