Word: lawing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alabama law sets up 17 separate standards for assigning pupils to public schools. Nowhere is the question of race or color mentioned, but school boards obviously had a wide-open chance to preserve the segregation status quo in several placement qualifications, including: 1) "the psychological qualification of the pupil for the type of teaching and associates involved," 2) "the possibility of threat of friction or disorder," 3) "the possibility of breaches of the peace or ill will or economic retaliation within the community," and 4) "the maintenance or severance of established social and psychological relationships with other pupils and with...
Last May a three-judge federal panel upheld the Alabama law on the ground that none of the 17 qualifications were, in and of themselves, unconstitutional unless proved, by evidence submitted to the courts, to be administered so as to exclude Negroes from white schools. "In some future proceeding," warned the lower court, "[the law] may be declared unconstitutional in its applications." That, in sum, was the judgment that the Supreme Court sustained last week...
...There's a new law of the land today on the integration problems of public schools," proclaimed Columnist David Lawrence, a Virginia Democrat. "Token integration now has become possible on a constitutional basis everywhere." Alabama's Lieutenant Governor-elect Albert Boutwell, one of the leading advocates of the law, talked of calling a South-wide conference to spread his doctrine. But what the Supreme Court had actually done was grant Alabama the right that it or any other state is entitled to: the presumption of good faith until otherwise proved. When and if Alabama demonstrates by its application...
Ruled unconstitutional last week: a 1956 Louisiana law prohibiting Negroes from participating in sports events with whites. A three-judge federal court (including Judge John Minor Wisdom, head of the contested Eisenhower delegation to the Republican National Convention in 1952) ruled that the Louisiana statute violates the equal-protection clause of the 14th Amendment, issued a temporary injunction to prevent the state from enforcing the law. Plaintiff in the lawsuit: Joe Dorsey, New Orleans Negro light-heavyweight prizefighter. Biggest probable beneficiary: the Sugar Bowl, which for two years has had trouble getting top Northern football teams, most of which have...
When Khrushchev does not have the law on his side, and when he dares not put things to the vote among those most concerned, he likes to talk (as he did last week) about its being "sensible to recognize the situation prevailing in the world." Translated out of jargon, Khrushchev was arguing that the West might not like Russia's presence in East Germany and Eastern Europe, and the East Germans and East Europeans obviously didn't like it either, but the world had better get used to it. It could as easily be argued that West Berliners...