Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...isolated sections where the ratio of Negro and white is more nearly that of the North. School boards which have agreed, without protest, to abide by the recent ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court and Negro children to formerly white schools do not represent the attitude of the Deep South. For the most part, such school boards have been located in regions where racial inequality was never a problem. Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Louisiana, as well as many other regions within border states, will certainly continue to maintain some system of segregation so long as they...
However wrong, or right, these men may be, the present effect of the court ruling in the Deep South is nil-save for the mental gymnastic it has caused politicians charged by their white fellow Southerners with preventing racial mingling. Negro children are still attending their same old schools; too aften housed in shamefully shabby buildings. The Southern white school kids, and most college students, are back in their all-white institutions again this fall. The same studied ignorance of the historic decision is being practiced on almost every level of racial contact. There are, of course, exceptions, but these...
...seek betterment of the Negro in the south are most often of the considered opinion that an immediate desegregation of the races would bring tragic results. Even now, a Kian-like organization is again stirring in Mississippi, where the Klan has been mercifully buried for years. Elsewhere throughout the Deep South there are being awakened old hatreds and fearful distrust. These Southern who, in the South, work for racial understanding cannot be blamed for recalling the days or Klan terror when their Northern critics demand an immediate change. The same enlightened Southerners point with justifiable pride to the immense...
Right or wrong, the South, through its white leaders of varied opinions, will resist with all its strength any effort to force segregation's end. The end of that resistance doesn't seem to be anywhere in sight in the Deep South...
...their recordings, are hewing to the original $5.95 price line. Others have agreed on a $4.98 "suggested" price. Manhattan's Sam Goody's, the major record discount house, continued to discount the "suggestions," advertised classical LPs for as much as 29% off. Billboard reported one significant change "deep [in] the country's economy": the pawnshop value has dropped from $1.25 to $1 a disk...