Word: racistly
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...flyer handed out by the pickets decried the film as "despicable" anti-Negro racist propaganda," and urged that it be banned in Massachusetts. The picket signs read "Offensive to Negro Actress" and "This is Boston--Not Mississippi...
Griffith was a Southerner, the son of a Confederate colonel, and his film has strong racist overtones...
Beyond such general failures, the report says, the campaign was based on the "implicit racist appeal of the Southern strategy. The Senator's objections to legislating morality, his criticisms of the Supreme Court, his advocacy of states' rights, all became the shorthand for an anti-civil rights appeal. An uglier aspect of the appeal was the not very subtle attempt to link lawlessness in the streets with the Negroes, and street riots with peaceful civil rights demonstrations...
...Negro vote.' Well, the Negro vote in the South is going to be more important than the Negro vote in Detroit, in Cleveland, in Chicago, in St. Louis, San Francisco, Philadelphia or New York." The G.O.P., said Morton, must gain in the South, "but not on a racist basis...
Long Enouqh in the Alleys. Fact is that a new Selma city administration, with the cooperation of many businessmen, is trying hard to clear the town's dark racist reputation by steering a more moderate course. On the very day that King arrived, seven of Selma's restaurants were quietly and peaceably integrated...