Word: legalism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...story of the South's desegre- gation is sometimes told in violence and often in warming progress; there is news of legal skirmishes and noise of rebel yells. But mostly, there is a story of individuals-white and black, leaders and followers. TIME has recorded this story week by week, and also turned the spotlight on its leaders: on Negro Lawyer Thurgood Marshall (Sept. 19, 1955), who did much to win a major battle for his people before the Supreme Court, and on Mississippi's Senator James O. Eastland (March 26), whose tradition and training have...
...transit system. In terms of concrete victories, this makes King a poor second to the brigade of lawyers who won the big case before the Supreme Court in 1954, and who are now fighting their way from court to court, writ to writ, seeking to build the legal framework for desegregation. But King's leadership extends beyond any single battle: homes and churches were bombed and racial passions rose close to mass violence in Montgomery's year of the boycott, but King reached beyond lawbooks and writs, beyond violence and threats, to win his people-and challenge...
...fireman. Then, hoping to treat man's physical ills, he planned to become a doctor. Becoming more deeply engrossed in the problems of his race, he turned his hopes to the law because "I could see the part I could play in breaking down the legal barriers to Negroes." At Morehouse, he came to final resolution. "I had been brought up in the church and knew about religion," says King, "but I wondered whether it could serve as a vehicle to modern thinking. I wondered whether religion, with its emotionalism in Negro churches, could be intellectually respectable as well...
...boycott continued, bringing the bus company to its economic knees. King and 89 other boycott leaders were indicted on charges of violating a 1921 antiboycott law that came straight from Alabama's legal boneyard (King's $500 fine is still under appeal). Then Montgomery's officials made a stab that very nearly paid off. They went to court for an injunction against the M.I.A. on the ground that it had set up an illegal transit system...
Then last Tuesday, the Committee executed a sharp legal maneuver which some observers feel may have weakened the effect of the pending law suit and the proposed referendum. The majority ordered the Superintendent to present the qualifications and recommendations of the 17 appointments, an order with which the Superintendent complied by stating the appointees' educational history and dates of appointment to the school system. He claimed that he had no recommendations, and Shaplin denied that the facts given could be considered real qualifications. The majority viewed the matter differently, and, in the opinion of some, may have complied with...