Word: segregationists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...times. Among those antique laws, several prohibit conspiracy to deprive any citizen of his civil rights, and last week a federal judge in Vicksburg concluded that one of man's most basic civil rights is his right to live. U.S. District Court Judge William Harold Cox, a stubborn segregationist, decided that the Ku Klux Klan, and three of its former members accused of killing a Negro, should pay damages...
...election to the Senate, in this state that gave George Wallace over 50 per cent of its popular vote. All eight Democratic congressional candidates were easily reelected, five of them running unopposed. Among those returning to e Ninety-First congress are HUAC mogul Edwin E. Willis, arch-segregationist John R. Rarick, and F. Edward "Get rid of the First Amendment" Hebert...
...Court, Thornberry retained his image as a "moderate" largely by contrast with his peers. When Johnson appointed him to the Fifth Circuit, in 1965, he also appointed former Mississippi Governor J.P. Coleman, who drew all the fire from civil rights organizations for being a racist, and for having supported segregationist legislation during his term as Governor. Thornberry, in the shadows then as he has been this year, was quietly accepted...
...Governor's mansion was also laudably progressive. Even though Maryland's voters register 3 to 1 Democratic, Agnew was elected to the governorship in 1966 because, once again, the Democrats had been split by a bloody primary campaign. His opponent was Baltimore Contractor George P. Mahoney, a buffled-headed segregationist who campaigned on the slogan: "Your home is your castle?protect it." Agnew staked out a moderate position, emphasizing the need for fiscal responsibility and tax reform...
...these two, not only is admission easier because an applicant is expected to be black, but subsistence is usually provided. In addition to student grants and privately endowed scholarships, there are scholarships financed by segregationist state governments...