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Backlash shapes campaigns across states in 1966 elections
AP's Belman Morin surveys the backlash to civil rights clashes from Chicago to California and Maryland to Georgia. Senators and governors including Douglas Percy Brooke and Maddox face shifts in white voter sentiment influencing open housing, law and order, and party strategies amid riots, protests, and rising racial tension.
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Belman Morin
NEW York (Ap
Chicago Lawn
Illinois
Maryland
Atlanta
Maddox
Chicago
Roy E. Wilkins
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Georgia
NAACP
Lester Maddox
Ray C. Bliss
GOP
Boston College
Hubert H. Humphrey
Louise Day Hicks
Boston School Board
Massachusetts
Edward Brooke
U.S. Senate
Viet Nam
California
Edmund G. Brown
Brown
Ronald Reagan
Supreme Court
Reagan
Watts
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Oakland
Paul H. Douglas
Charles H. Percy
Douglas
Percy
Peoria Journal Star
West Side
Chicago Sun-Times
Waukegan
Robert V. Sabonjian
Sabonjian
Brooke
Mississippi
Endicott Peabody
Hicks
Peabody
Edward M. Kennedy
Terews
Boston
George P. Mahoney
Cois
Mahoney
Baltimore County
Carleton R. Sicles
Spiro T. Agnew
Hyman A. Pressman
Agnew
Johnson
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Hubert H. Hum
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
Jacob K. Javits
R-N. Y
Summerhill
Ellis Arnall
Arnall
Rep
Howard Callaway
Congress
Carl E. Sanders
Callaway
James Gray
Gainesville