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Nearly a dozen speakers, including Hartman and Stauder, emphasized the subtlety of racist and repressive tactics allegedly used by University officials...
Judge G. Harrold Carswell and his defenders, in responding to the most provocative attacks made on him, insist that he is no racist. Even granting him the point, is that negative credential sufficient qualification for serving on the U.S. Supreme Court? While much of the argument over Carswell's nomination has centered on his questionable civil rights record, an increasing number of legal scholars and Senators are asking whether he has the kind of legal mind that would enhance the nation's highest court...
...they dig into his background, the critics are finding the resume of an affable, conventional Southerner, who gazes past the azaleas and well-trimmed lawns of his Tallahassee mansion at the nation's rebellious blacks with a lack of concern. His now-repudiated racist speech in 1948 could even conceivably have been an automatic acquiescence to a regional political ritual. He helped convert a Tallahassee public golf course threatened with integration in 1956 into a private club, once bought land that carried a racially restrictive deed, and served as a director of a housing corporation for a Florida State...
...They took an hour and a half to ask us what we meant by 'responsible persons," said Mrs. Parks. "They implied we were racist and bigoted...
Poussaint said yesterday that Agnew was "playing racist-type politics" in an "appeal to backlash-not just conservative backlash but moderate backlash...