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Charles Evers, 45, has already come quite far since he took over as field secretary of Mississippi's N.A.A.C.P. in 1963, when his brother was cut down by a sniper. Last week, in a special election conducted to fill the congressional seat that was vacated by racist Governor John Bell Williams, Evers polled 33,713 of 114,767 votes in a race against six white conservative candidates. His trip is likely to end there, however-at least for this year...
...What value is it to a black man to win a medal if he returns to the hell of Harlem?" asks Edwards. "They are only being used to further the racist attitudes of the U.S.A...
Party spokesmen have also tried to neutralize Wallace's appeal by attacking his record of "socialist welfare measures" in Alabama. When Wallace told an audience that he considers himself "a populist," the Republican state chairman in Georgia said that just means he is "a socialistic racist...
Wallace agrees. Jumping at the chance to hurt Democrats in the North, Wallace has attempted in the last year to convince Northerners that he is not just a crude racist--"My wife received 40 per cent of the nigger vote. These niggers know I want them to get educated." Instead of blatant racism, Wallace offers Northerners "sound Constitutional principles" because "I'm not running on segregation, I'm running on states' rights." That distinction makes him seem more respectable, so Northern whites find it easier to support him openly...
Wallace's hopes of obtaining enough electoral votes to blackmail a major candidate into a "coalition government" will probably prove fruitless. If Nixon is the Republican nominee, Wallace's candidacy is most likely to result in Johnson's re-election. His racist campaign in the fall will only heighten tensions already intensified by a summer of unprecedented violence in the cities...