Word: equals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another vacancy is that left by Al Rapperport, a hard-working backstroker who cut his 200 time from 2:25 to 2:19.2 last year and beat Yale. His potential successor is Griff Winthrop, a sophomore who will have to make an equal improvement...
...Peace & Order." The ICC handed down its ruling in two specific decisions, upholding the complaint of various Negro passengers against 13 Southern railroads and a bus company. At issue in a broader sense was the Southern doctrine of "separate but equal" facilities for the races...
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...
...great deal pleasanter to travel with respectable and well-behaved colored people," said the Charleston, S.C. News and Courier in 1885, "than with unmannerly and ruffianly white men." The doctrine of separate but equal spread outward from the western states of the South, however, until it gained the approval of the Supreme Court, in Plessy v. Ferguson...
...same day, speaking at a civic reception in Bangalore. India, Communist Party Boss Nikita Khrushchev added some more information and a helping of propaganda. The experiment, said Khrushchev, used a "minimum" amount of atomic material to create a "maximum" explosion. His interpreter said the blast was equal to "a million tons of TNT." but some Russian reporters insisted that Khrushchev said "more than one million tons." Then, after announcing that "Russia will never be first to abuse this power." Khrushchev clapped his hands above his head to lead the applause for his own statement. After the applause he went...