Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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To newspaper readers in the South, the No. 1 story is the result of the Supreme Court's decision banning segregation in the public schools. How are Southern newspapers covering the story? In the opinion of many a Southern newsman, the papers have done a mediocre job to date...
The Moderates. With segregation deeply imbedded in tradition, most Southern dailies have opposed trying to end it by "judicial fiat." Even liberal Editor Hodding Carter of the Greenville (Miss.) Delta Democrat-Times, who opposes segregation on "moral grounds," feels that the Supreme Court decision has hurt the gradual progress of...
Last week in North Carolina, the biggest paper in the state showed how Southern dailies are making the best of it. The Charlotte Observer (circ. 136,302) opposed a proposal for the state legislature to adopt a "declaration of policy" favoring segregation, saying that debate on such a measure would...
Following Georgia and South Carolina, Mississippi last week became the third state to approve the idea of abolishing public schools in order to get around the U.S. Supreme Court's decision against segregation. Out of 135,000 ballots cast, two out of three were in favor of a drastic...
Though the amendment will be used only as a last resort-and may well involve the illegal use of taxpayers' money for private schools-Mississippi has been well conditioned for it. Almost from the moment that the Supreme Court spoke, Governor Hugh White, 73, promised to "make certain that...