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Show | WE COULD NOT YIELD/continued arms crossed, guarding the front door of God's house of worship. informed him where we had suppos- brought Rosalynn and me even clos- our county, including the president of the largest insurance agency and a man after a year or two, settling up with a few of our customersfortheir entire ture for eight years. filling the same year’s trade. Our hard work and the | immediately confronted the two men who had concoctedthestory. books, sending out monthly bills and, slowly improving racial attitudes in Georgia let us survive financially or dread; feelings of bewildermentand confusion; or obsessive thoughts, then anxiety might be disrupting your life and this videois for you. sive behavior; anticipatory worry, fear ALL NOW TO ORDER — TOLL FREE! the farmerstourge that they no longer er together. Rosalynn began to help meat the warehouse, keeping the This was a serious crisis, but it If you experiencefeelings of insecurity and have hiddenfears, if you worry about your health or have problem: to the county courthouse, examined the public agricultural records, ob- tained list of everyone who had ever sold peanutstous and then visited all deal with our warehouse. Their story was that we had visited a Communist training campin northern Alabama for a month, learning how to expedite racial integration in the South! These were some of the most successful leaders in showed up at my warehouse. WhoShould View This 70 Minute smal] accounts or just to visit for a while. After a few days, one of our relatives told me that he had beenvisited by two prominent John Birchers, who edly just spent the last several weeks. I soon discovered that they had gone ber. 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After our oldest by” and about two monthsbefore har- © Worry © Panic Attacks REGIS & KATHY LEE Aslate as 1965, after I had been a Georgia state senator for four years, organization in whichI did not believe Paul expressed his regret at my response, and the group left without any expressions of anger. Fortunately for me,this wasat the beginning of a dormant period in our annual business Let Lucinda Bassett's 70-Minute Video Seminar show you how to OVERCOME: roulve seenher on VYerrs (3 Times), flush it down the toilet in the back room, but I could not contribute to an who hadservedin the State Legisla- seat myfather had held Both of them claimed, falsely. that Unfortunately, the overall issue of racial integration was not resolvedeas- ily. For the following 15 years (and even until today). strong segregation sentiments remained. Theinfluence of the White Citizens Councils slow: ly fadedin all the states except Mississippi, but in our countythe John Birch Society gained a stronghold. In Americus, Ga., our county seat, a large majority of bankers, doctors and lawyers were active members. The daily Times- Recorder always ran the regular John they had irrefutable evidencethat their information was correct. It was only after I returned with hotel receipts and other records from places in Mexico that they grudgingly admitted the truth. Then. as wasthe case 10 years earlier, I had tovisit my customers oneat a time in orderto defuse thiscrisis Plains wasand is a wonderful place to live. Asin all Southern communities, the white people were faced with a quandary during the civil rights days, torial page. A numberofprivate but they struggled through the ordeal and ultimately made the right decision. The “professional” segregationist lead- schools were organized by white parents who refused to permit their chil- ers who influenced both the legal system dren to be educated with black students. Strong social and economic pres- and most of the religious congregations integration. The churches,free of gov- eventually faded into the background. With each passing year during the 1950s and 1960s, more and morecitizens in our town came to understand ernmentauthority. were most immune that “separate but equal” was compat- Birch column prominently on its edi sures were exerted to prevent further If you'd like to mail in your order, sendyour name, address, zip code and check to: Fi Box 9020, Dept. YA90-PD, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724 Overcome Your Amlety And Fear Video Only $11.95 plus$3.00 postage & handling CA and NY residents please add sales tax to change. There was a notable pho- 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed stern line of Methodist stewards with tograph, widely published. of black people kneeling in prayer in front of an Americus church. confronted by a ible with neither the U.S. Constitution nor the teachings of Jesus Christ. 1% Adaptedfrom the book Living Faith,” to be pub shed this month by Times Books. Copyrigh ©1996 by Jimmy Carter. | Ee er oe ee wees Yomperecaaae fox 8 prorrt PAGE 22 NOVEMBER 10, 1996 PARADE MAGAZINE |
