Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back last week from a short sojourn in the South was the Rev. Trevor Huddleston, Anglican priest of the Community of the Resurrection who has become a symbol and rallying point of resistance to apartheid in South Africa, where he has been stationed for twelve years. In Africa, whence his superiors have recently recalled him to England, white supremacists viewed him with alarm as a kamrboetie (roughly, nigger-lover) and predicted he would not be allowed to visit the U.S. Southern states, let alone be permitted to speak there. But Father Huddleston was able to travel and to talk with...
...whites will be swamped in a sea of 25 million blacks. Last week, after five years' study, a government-appointed commission headed by Pretoria University's Professor F. R. Tomlinson, a Cornell graduate with a U.S. wife, brought forth a blueprint for total apartheid (apartness...
...Total apartheid has long been more of a racist ideal than a specific program even for Nationalist politicians. Faced with the cost and impracticality of such a dream, it remains to be seen whether, for all their violent talk, they are prepared...
...buses white and black ride together. There is no segregation at city hall concerts or at public libraries. Of the 45 city councilmen, six are nonwhite. Last year, at the direction of Nationalist Prime Minister Strydom, the provincial government passed a law giving the local governor power to impose apartheid on reluctant urban communities and bill them for its cost. Cape Town ignored the ordinance...
Last month the city council got a sharp letter from the government listing "complaints" allegedly made by visitors shocked by the lack of segregated facilities in Cape Town and insisting on apartheid. Grudgingly, the city ran a few trial Jim Crow buses and set up a Jim Crow public toilet on a main street. Protested a nonwhite city councilman: "Why do we do these terrible things at the mere hint of pressure from the Nationalists?" Last week the pressure became more than a hint. In the face of new threats from the provincial governor to act if the city...