Word: backlasher
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...example, concluded that it would not take any responsibility for desegregating its schools, and made its decision stick in the courts; the U.S. Supreme Court a fortnight ago turned down a chacne to hear the case. Chicago, Boston and Philadelphia are bogged down for reasons that range from white backlash to a school-board inertia. New York City's Board of Education hesitantly advanced and then igmoniniously cut back a proposal for big-scale pairing of mostly white and mostly Negro schools, which implied bussing many children back and forth...
...that, civil rights forces did have cause for concern, for the Indiana voting showed the so-called white "backlash" still in evidence. Wallace actually carried populous Lake County, which includes industrial, heavily unionized Gary, Hammond and East Chicago. He also won in adjacent Porter County, a recently developed steel center that has been afflicted with racial conflict. If the backlash in such areas continues through November, it could cause serious trouble for the national Democratic ticket...
Gains from white "backlash" seem to go almost entirely to Republicans. Last fall Republicans narrowed Democratic majorities sharply by a go-slow attitude on civil rights. Anti-Negro voters have little trust in the party that wins a large majority of Negro votes...
...Backlash. In general, housing is still the Negro's toughest barrier. Here and there-for example, in Denver's Park Hill residential section, where Negro home buying at first created flurries of panic-colored families have been able to move into white sections with little trouble. But the major metropolitan areas of Chicago, New York...
...white counterattack in California reflects one natural consequence of the Negro's militant position: a backlash reaction, derived from the notion that "the Negro is pushing too far, too fast," and that he is also threatening the unskilled white man's job security. James P. Mitchell, Eisenhower's onetime Labor Secretary, now San Francisco's human-relations coordinator and a friend of the Negro feels that "militancy could quite easily antagonize important people who are now prepared or preparing to do something. What Negroes have to remember is something they tend to forget: that they...