Word: integrationism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite ballyhooed breakthroughs and a carload of court decrees, the Deep South's resilient resistance to school integration has been remarkably effective: only 21% of the 2,980,000 Negro school children in eleven Southern states actually sat in classrooms last year with whites. As the school year began...
All of this adds up to a great deal of political, social and economic advancement, and a great many Negroes know it and take pride in it. But more than ever, after the overriding duty of thinking of all human beings as individuals, the U.S. must look upon Negroes as...
The Alianza still has its problems, of course. In a recent report, the Inter-American Committee on the Alliance for Progress (CIAP) cited three key troubles: the slowness of some countries to execute reforms, poor local planning, and the declining market for basic Latin American commodities. President Johnson proposed action...
Somewhere in the South, a Negro seats himself in a newly integrated café. "Do you have any collard greens?" he asks the waitress. "Do you have any pigs' feet or pigs' tails? Do you have any mustard greens and corn bread?" To each question, the answer is...
With that apocryphal story, Author Thurman makes several points. The white South is indeed not ready for integration. Integration cannot fully arrive as long as the Negro feels he must strip himself of his folkways to enter the white man's world, or as long as the white man...