Word: progressives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...school; he was one of six Negroes among nearly 100 students at Crozer. Fearful that he might fail to meet white standards, King worked ceaselessly. Aside from his general theological studies, he pored over the words and works of the great social philosophers: Plato, Aristotle, Rousseau, Locke, Hegel (whose progress-through-pain theories are still prominent in King's thinking). Above all, he read and reread everything he could find about India's Gandhi. "Even now," says King, "in reading Gandhi's words again, I am given inspiration. The spirit of passive resistance came to me from...
Thus, emerging out of politics, came progress that was more secure because of politics. "There is no doubt that these are not perfect documents," said U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. during the U.N. maneuverings, "but they are the product of compromise. They contain the words which can lead away from hostilities and toward an era of peace...
...further testimonial to Diem's progress came fortnight ago from the Communists. After years of insisting that South Viet Nam was just an illegitimate clique and not a government (they talk the same way about South Korea), the Russians gave up their insistence that the Communist governments in Viet Nam and Korea are the only true regimes, and proposed that both halves of each country be admitted...
...Europe and America can mutually benefit each other. Europe can lend us its experience and caution, and the U.S. can renew for Europe the hope and optimism vital to progress. "Europe can teach America only how to learn; America can teach Europe how to believe," claims d'Entreves...