Word: integrationism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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"Speaking the Truth." Four Alabama cities-Tuskegee, Mobile, Birmingham and Huntsville-were scheduled to start token public school integration. Even Birmingham, long a national symbol of diehard segregationist sentiment, now seemed resigned. "Few of us are happy," wrote the Birmingham Post-Herald, "but we trust that the people of Alabama...
Crucial Summer: the 1963 Civil Rights Crises (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Last in the series of five programs examining the current race integration struggle.
Coleman, 49, was trying to return to the Governor's mansion, and his appeal came in a desperate, last-minute effort against Lieutenant Governor Paul Johnson, 47, in a Democratic primary runoff last week. It was not that Coleman was an integrationist. During his campaign, he tossed the word...
Forget the Mayonnaise. To help dramatize the Negro's 1963 revolution, leaders of civil rights organizations seized upon Randolph's old idea, called upon sympathizers everywhere for a "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom." Representatives of different, often rival, organizations got together, fired out to state and...
Pressured by the school board, he has agreed to broaden his transfer plan. By a vote of 10 to 1, the school board has directed him to take a racial census of the schools, a step that he had previously resisted. Acting under a new state law, the board plans...