Word: naacp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Carolina, are established by the white leaders to plan over-all strategy for the entire State's school system. Similarly, leaders in most southern states seriously think they can placate the Negro by building big, shiny new segregated schools. In some districts, it may work. But according to one NAACP official in Nashville, who also likes to make generalizations, "No Negro will ever be satisfied with a segregated school, no matter how good...
...leaders of the segregation movement refuse to listen to reason; instead of encouraging moderation they oppose it, even when it seems to be the prevailing sentiment in a given area. At the University of Tennessee, for instance, a group of students requested the administration for premission to form an NAACP chapter; their petition was refused...
...NAACP is more circumspect and refrains from staging an extravaganza, a Negro would probably meet no student resistance of important proportions. This is due primarily to the effects of the February riots. Probably the great majority of the students who participated in the demonstrations had no idea that their action would have such national and international repercussions. No one wishes to be characterized as a mobster, and only after the rioting was over did what had happened become clear. Students also realize that the reputation of the school was badly injured by the incident. Moreover, there is not only...
...Legislature, the vast majority of Alabamians were unalterably opposed to the presence of a Negro at the University. From two perspectives, funds from the Legislature and future students from Alabama homes, the University's Board of Trustees could not appear too much in sympathy with Miss Lucy and her NAACP cortege. Without these pressures from the outside, the Board would possibly have acted more effectively during the disturbances and in its treatment of Miss Lucy. At the same time, it is undoubtedly true that the administration simply lacked both courage and leadership, and probably also the inclination, to bring...
...other factors in the Lucy incident are harder to assess: the part played by the NAACP, and the effect of a large press corps. Next to the Communist Party, the NAACP is easily the most hated, and the most feared, organization among Alabamians. The average Southerner's conception of the NAACP is incredible to one who has not experienced it. Many sincerely feel that the organization is subversive, run by Communists, advocates miscegenation, and is solely responsible for the Supreme Court's May, 1954, decision...