“Mayor Charles Sampson, later our backdoor neighbor and good friend, and the city attorney Hardy Lott were both staunch segregationists and members of the Citizens Council. They loved to issue statements saying that the Federal government had taken law and order out of our hands and forbidding people to gather on the streets and lambasting the Kennedys for all of our problems. Once when NBC invited the mayor to appear on the Today show, he said Hardy and his law partner, Stanny Sanders, had coached him not to say ‘n—-r’ on national television, but then he got on and said, ‘We have lots of good n—-rs who have been voting a long time, such as the janitress at the City Hall,’ referring to my friend Winnie Baskin, who lived to be 100. All the time trials were being held almost daily in City Court, poor Winnie was crouching behind the stairway and asking me what was going on.”