Word: integrationist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This presents a great problem for integrationists. There is no Negro in this town who considers work toward desegregation to be the primary part of his life. The Negro world, and its skilled professions, demand too much time from the best people, and guarantee them safety. It is this guarantee of safety, together with the chance to be considered an "exceptional Negro" by the white man, that makes Uncle Toms out of men like the high school principal here. But even a local minister, who speaks often of the need for integration and the sacrifices its attainment requires acts...
...have bad to distribute explanatory literature each week through all the local churches. These people have never been exposed to the idea that community activity can mean social progress. It is this simple notion--that progress is possible but can only be achieved through co-operation--that an integrationist group must get across to combat the attitude, constantly reiterated by the local Negroes themselves, that "we people can never stick together, or get anywhere in the white man's world...
...inflexibility of this attitude makes the integrationist feel that he had scored a major triumph if a member of the white community concedes the most minor point. For instance, Chester-town has a large, new hospital which can comfortably house around 50 patients. In it there are eight beds for Negroes, four to a room. Infectious and non-infectious patients sometimes must breathe the same air; slightly ill babies must lie next to old women, all Negro men and women must share the same bathroom...
...three weeks of reveling in the publicity (he brought his son John, 10, with him when newsmen gathered, explaining, "John wanted to get his picture on TV too"), Singelmann had been able to muster only 65 volunteers, including one family of twelve, another of ten, and at least one integrationist Freedom Rider, who gleefully accepted the racist money just for the ride. Most of the Negroes arrived in New York and Los Angeles, sheepish, shy and startled by flashbulbs and inquiring reporters...
...violent leaders are silenced by jailing or Red-baiting them, the violent factions will gain control of the integrationist movement," Braden claimed. The NAACP is already losing some members who are discontented with the slow progress made through peaceful action, he added...