Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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THE Supreme Court decision outlawing racial segregation in the public schools puts a strong searchlight on a chink in the moral armor of Southern liberalism. Southern liberals have thought it possible to define democracy and human equality as compatible with an enforced dual social structure. These men were willing gradually...
¶ In Atlanta, some 200 representatives of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People adopted a strong resolution setting next September as the target date for desegregation of schools in the Southeast (Ala., Fla., Ga., Miss., N.C., S.C., Term.). Added the N.A.A.C.P.: "We are not alarmed by those...
Last Friday, Senator Eastland, Democrat of Mississippi, asked Harlan: "Would you approve a treaty that would deprive the people of rights guaranteed them by the Constitution?" When the nominee replied that it would be "indiscreet and inappropriate" for him to reply, Eastland followed with a comparable question concerning school segregation...
One of our recent survey stories concerned the Supreme Court's decision of last May banning segregation in the public schools. The decision made news around the world, and TIME'S editors were interested in finding out how Southern newspapers as a whole were reporting attempts to put...
The road company of The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, starring loquacious Actor Paul Douglas as loquacious Captain Queeg, wound up its tour of the South seven weeks ahead of schedule. Reason: Mutiny Producer Paul Gregory feared "a big dip" at Dixie box offices because Philadelphia-born Douglas blabbed to a...