“Weeks after the Brown [vs. Board of Education decision in 1954], the press hailed the latest poster boy for the ‘soft Southern approach’…. Samuel J. Ervin, a Harvard-educated state Supreme Court justice, arrived in Washington ready to lend his legal expertise and ‘country lawyer’ charm to the segregationist cause. “Governor William Umstead tapped Ervin to […]
Posts Tagged ‘nc segregationists’
Segregationist cause welcomed ‘unreconstructed’ Ervin
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged brown vs board of education, clyde hoey, defending white democracy, jason morgan ward, nc segregationists, sam ervin, william umstead on March 7, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Ideas that died young: Biracial coalition for segregation
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged i am a man!, nc segregationists, stve estes on October 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“Unwilling to let even one black child attend school with their sons and daughters, diehard Tar Heel segregationists [in the late 1950s] resorted to desperate measures, even attempting to muster a biracial coalition…. “The charter for the North Carolina Defenders of State’s Rights… called for all men ‘who have pride in their race, whether they […]
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