Word: segregationists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moral failure and ethical cowardice at those who dictate policy for the University, above all the President and Deans. We have yet to discover how our nation's outstanding place of learning can sit back in brick oblivion and course-book apathy and watch America's Number One Norern Segregationist chart her way to power not seven minutes distant, not five miles off. In this Harvard shows itself no different perhaps than the society of which it is a product. No more and no less than the white bigot of South Boston, or the raw-voiced howling redneck of Alabama...
Republican Rubel Phillips, 42, who ran unsuccessfully in 1 963 as a segregationist, opened his gubernatorial campaign by pleading for a truce in Mississippi's racial war. "Trying to keep something from happening has absorbed so much of our total energies for all these years that we haven't had much left to devote to the really important task of developing our state," declared Phillips. "It is painfully clear that the race issue has retarded the development of our human resources. The white cannot keep the Negro down without paying the awesome penalty of restricting his own development...
...William Ekman, 54, a bayonet-hard combat officer who led parachute assaults during World War II and was an original leader of the Green Berets. Though he has never previously grappled with civil rights or the law, Missouri-born Ekman (West Point, '38) knows how to face down segregationist landlords. "He looks on his new job as another battle," says a friend...
During the campaign, Winter met secretly with Negro leaders, explained to them that he would have to sound like a segregationist in public in order to pick up the white conservative vote that he needed, along with Negro support, to win. Realizing that this was the only course that would win Winter white votes, Evers and his lieutenants went along with the ruse. Evers even advised a Winter aide on election...
Come November, Mississippi's Negroes may have even less inclination to go to the polls. For their choice then will be between Williams and Republican Rubel Phillips, a Jackson attorney who is as outspoken a segregationist as his opponent...