Word: equal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said the majority decision: "There is now no rational basis upon which the separate but equal doctrine can be validly applied to public carrier transportation." But the court, taking its pace from the Supreme Court's doctrine of "deliberate speed," postponed any order to stop bus-line segregation, and explained that when one came it would apply only to Montgomery...
Against Segregation. Two presbyteries in South Carolina and one in Alabama made "overtures" (requests) that the assembly submit to all 85 presbyteries for a vote its 1954 proclamation that all men are equal in Christ and that congregations and institutions should open their doors to all races. The assembly turned the requests down cold-first in standing committee and then in a unanimous vote of all the delegates...
...fewer students apparently really debate the issue. Segregation in the South, like Communism elsewhere, is really not a serious subject for debate. Even those who might be against it had rather keep silent, or simply nod their head, instead of questioning so sacred a principle as "separate but equal...
When Washington definitely repudiated "social equality," he also accepted the prevailing belief of most Americans, North and South. He brought the Atlanta crowd to its feet with wild cheering when he dramatically said: "In all things that are purely social, we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to human progress." The endorsement by a Negro of social inequality gave it a force that it might not otherwise have had. The year after his speech the United States Supreme Court, following the precedent of several lower federal courts and rulings...
...teachers tend--unrealistically--to softpedal this aspect of the problem. They feel it will be a long time before real integration becomes a fact. In the meantime, limited integration, or de facto segregation will essentially preserve the status quo until Negro education improves to the point where it will equal the standards of that offered white students...