Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In 1893, the year White was born on the outskirts of Atlanta's Darktown, 152 U.S. citizens, mostly Negroes, were murdered by mobs. In his lifetime, 3,017 men and women were lynched in the U.S., but when Walter White died of a heart attack last week, there had...
He rarely caught the public eye again. In 1953, as the attorney for the state of South Carolina, he defended segregation in the schools of the South (TIME, Dec. 21, 1953). Last year he came to the aid of J. Robert Oppenheimer (TIME, June 14). He lost both cases. A...
¶ Confirmed New York Judge John Marshall Harlan as an Associate Supreme Court Justice by a vote of 71 to 11 (nine Southern Democrats, who suspect they will not like Harlan's views on segregation, and Republicans Langer and Welker, who do not like his "internationalism").
On July 3, 1950, Letter Carrier Robert M. Dawson Jr. and his four small children were ordered off the municipal beach at Baltimore's Fort Smallwood Park and sent home. Reason: they are Negroes. The Dawsons took the case to court, and last December Baltimore's Federal District...
"It is now obvious," said the Appeals Court, "that segregation cannot be justified as a means to preserve the public peace merely because the tangible facilities furnished to one race are equal to those furnished to the other . . . Racial segregation in recreational activities can no longer be sustained as a...