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DIED. HERMAN TALMADGE, 88, cigar-chomping ex-U.S. Senator and Governor of Georgia who started as a staunch segregationist--he voted against the Civil Rights Act--but later supported issues important to blacks; in Hampton, Ga. The Democrat won respect for his fierce, effective grilling of Nixon witnesses while on the Senate Watergate Committee but lost his bid for a fifth term in 1980 after the Senate denounced him for financial improprieties...
...whose last name became Winter's middle name. This same hero, however, was accused of slaughtering black Union soldiers who surrendered in a battle at Fort Pillow, Tenn. He went on to become the first Imperial Wizard of the K.K.K. Winter, now 79, began his political career as a segregationist but today is one of the most eloquent proponents of a new flag as a symbol...
...Civil War, and not far from the "I Had a Dream" monument to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a statue of Forrest was raised on city property. The slate-gray memorial and its bright rebel symbol were approved during the 36th and final year of onetime segregationist Mayor Joe Smitherman's time in office. It was unveiled five days after the first black mayor in city history, James Perkins, was inaugurated...
Chris Sullivan, the current editor, had faxed me a 10-point response to national press accounts calling Southern Partisan racist, segregationist and secessionist. So I expected to find a considerable operation, one equal to the wrath against it. But at an unremarkable strip mall, I entered an office that contained the entire paid staff: Sullivan and one assistant. The quarterly magazine has 8,000 subscribers and generally runs between 50 and 60 pages. Sullivan uses free-lance writers--columnists and essayists, mostly--who are paid between $200 and $500 per article. "We're not in the news because...
...person or group bears the responsibility for self-segregation. Rather the imperative to challenge our segregationist tendencies rests on us as individuals, uneasily but equally...