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Although many Southerners and Northerners assume that Jim Crow has been around forever, the "separate but equal" doctrine is relatively new. Before and during the Civil War, there was no legal segregation of passengers in the Southern slave states. The first Jim Crow transportation law was not written in the U.S. until 1875 (in Tennessee...
...learn a whole new set of heroes when I came south," says Ted Adams, but Jim Crow never became one of them. It is on this subject that Adams' views differ most deeply from the majority of his fellow Southern Baptists. The Wor'd Alliance is on record as saying: "Discrimination and segregation ... are ethically and morally indefensible and contrary to the Gospel of Christ." But Ted Adams knows that such ringing phrases from the leadership are largely ignored by the rank and file. Like many another Southern church leader, he is careful not to push the burdened...
...grads watch Halfback John David Crow and are happily reminded of that Aggie immortal, Jarrin' John Kimbrough. The hard-charging linemen are many, mean and magnificent, and recently the squad elected Sophomore Jim Stanley as the meanest of the bunch. "Shucks," said the dark-eyed guard who knows an Aggie compliment when he hears it, "that's an awful big honor...
...Orleans' 79-year-old Archbishop Joseph Francis Rummel, a famed enemy of segregation (three years ago he banned Jim Crow benches in New Orleans' Catholic churches), met the issue head-on but gently. Instead of cutting off the congregation from all spiritual ministrations, he merely suspended services at the mission in Jesuits Bend and reduced services at two others at nearby Belle Chasse and Myrtle Grove. In a letter addressed to the congregations, the archbishop said that the incident violated "the obligations of reverence and devotion which Catholics owe to every priest...
...upholding a lower court, which had refused the Jim Crow Texas Citizens Council an injunction to bar state funds from integrated schools, the Texas Supreme Court swept away the last legal obstacles to complete desegregation. It 1) declared invalid all sections of the state constitution and state statutes that required public-school segregation, and 2) knocked down that portion of the state's Gilmer-Aikin law that prohibited state funds to mixed schools. The decision, said Texas Attorney General John Ben Shepperd, "settles the law in Texas on a statewide basis...