Segregationist

But he was also a segregationist,” Warnock said.

Her pivotal involvement in the 1963 protest at the K&W Cafeteria, which resulted in her arrest, showcased her unwavering commitment to dismantling segregationist laws in Winston-Salem.

He told donors that “nothing will fundamentally change” and boasted about having worked with segregationist senators.

Nine days earlier, Mr. Biden had attracted criticism for speaking warmly about his relationships with segregationist senators in the 1970s.

In his nostalgic, sympathetic vision, Byrd was joined by a veritable who’s who of lingering – but still substantial – segregationist congressmen.

Nearly three decades later, Mitchell’s revelation that the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission, a pro-segregationist state agency, had secretly assisted De La Beckwith’s defense put pressure on officials to consider another trial.

There is no George Wallace, the segregationist candidate who took millions of former Democratic votes in 1968, ensuring Nixon’s triumph.

In June, she flattened Mr. Biden in a debate exchange over his warm remembrances of segregationist senators.

Martha Wasmund, 64, said at the Harris event in Ankeny that she preferred the California senator, and was rejecting Mr. Biden’s candidacy because of the fond way he recalled working with segregationist lawmakers.

She is the granddaughter of the late U.S. John C. Stennis, who served 41 years before retiring in 1989 and was a segregationist much of his career.

An avowed segregationist to the end, the KKK mastermind behind the 1964 “Mississippi Burning” killings of three civil rights workers has died in prison at age 92, officials announced Friday.

For some senators, renaming the Senate Office Building would not just be about honoring McCain but about stripping an honor from Russell, a famed segregationist.

As Ellis was white, Peterson's trios were racially integrated, a controversial move at the time that was fraught with difficulties with segregationist whites and blacks.

Church ministers, businessmen and educators were among those who wished to keep segregation and segregationist ideals in order to retain the privileges they gained from patronage from whites, such as monetary gains.

Faubus was not a proclaimed segregationist.

He had long held much political power, but had lost a recent election for mayor to a less rabidly segregationist candidate.

In the opinion of one reviewer, Byrd, like other Southern and border-state Democrats, came to realize that he would have to temper "his blatantly segregationist views" and move to the Democratic Party mainstream if he wanted to play a role nationally.

Starting in the 1970s, he moderated his position on race, but continued to defend his early segregationist campaigns on the basis of states' rights in the context of Southern society at the time. citation He never fully renounced his earlier viewpoints.

This was more than a managerial relationship; Peterson praised Granz for standing up for him and other black jazz musicians in the segregationist south of the 1950s and 1960s.