Word: integrationism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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I must take exception to an otherwise well written article by James Fallows which dealt with integration in the south. His statement that black schools in Mississippi and Alabama "without exception, are ramshackle, decaying, understaffed and overcrowded" is a simple misstatement of fact.
The reaction was immediate. The rider, as HEW officials moaned at a news conference two days later, would "paralyze all school desegregation." While the laws and the court decisions requiring desegregation would stay on the books, the provision would strip the federal government of its most potent weapon: the use...
(5 of 10) with which to counter the militants. All at once, Northern liberals discovered that integration could mean demonstrations in front of their schools, protest marches on their main streets. All at once, Negroes were not just a faceless social cause, but a community of individuals, some of whom...
- New York City-based Mutual Real Estate Investment Trust ($1,000,000), which owns apartment buildings in New York, New Jersey, Illinois and Virginia. The company has had a hard time raising capital for expansion because of an aggressive policy of integration in its units, most of which are well...
Things finally erupted in Clinton, Tennessee. After a Life photographer had done a story on "Peaceful Integration In Clinton," Clinton's parents struck back. Weeks of rioting and violence followed, and spread to other cities in the South. The most important result was that Southerners learned that President Eisenhower was...