Word: integrationist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Carl Braden, white integrationist leader released two weeks ago after a prison term for contempt of Congress, charged yesterday that progress in civil rights and integration in the South will halt unless the House Committee on Un-American Activities is abolished...
...individual, subvert the academic community and interfere with the educational process." The resolution was adopted by the faculty assembly, 308-34, then put in the mail for a vote of the full faculty. In the face of both student and faculty votes, the Regents insisted that the integrationist force on the campus was a mere "vocal minority...
Instead, Patterson helped set off integrationist movements that last week were spreading throughout the South. In Florida, the N.A.A.C.P. ordered a segregation test of all rail and bus facilities. In New York, CORE headquarters announced that it was sending field secretaries to New Orleans, Jackson and Montgomery. In Nashville, more students were ready to go to Jackson, where the 27 arrested Freedom Riders were fined $200 each and given suspended sentences of 60 days. At week's end, 22 of the 27 were still in jail because they refused to ante up any money...
...naive" support of integration, has managed to kill the idea. But the regents do not have to heed the faculty, and this year they decided to give Waring the nod. Sewanee's President Edward McCrady was especially proud that Waring would get a degree alongside pro-integrationist Professor Kayden. McCrady envisioned "a true ministry of reconciliation." Last week, as Kayden withdrew "until a happier time when there is no ideological conflict in the South," Sewanee was left with Racist Waring as the symbol of its pride...
...when the integrationist bus stopped in Montgomery last week, there was no one to stop the senselessness. An idiot, club-swinging mob of about 100 surged toward the riders. Trying to save a Negro girl from serious injury, John Seigenthaler got clouted from behind...