Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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At a mass meeting of white adults in Linden, Ala. last week, State Senator Walter C. Givhan spoke on one of his favorite topics: the campaign of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to end segregation in the schools. What, he cried, is the real purpose of...
"It has been quiet here since May 17," writes the newspaper editor at the University of North Carolina, and his statement is a key to Southern student opinion about the Supreme Court's outlawing of segregation in public schools. In a sampling of student editors, The Florida Flambeau found that...
The University of Georgia editor agrees that "desegregation must be a lengthy process," but asserts that "segregation cannot and will not continue indefinitely in Georgia or in any other state." Still, at the present time, most students oppose admitting Negroes "because of trouble that might develop. Because of our backgrounds...
Such apathy is not restricted to the deep South, for even in border states like North Carolina and Tennessee, the students are not excited over the issue. North Carolina's paper says that "desegregation will be no problem when it comes--whether that is next week or five years away...
Carrington added that if desegregation very delayed for any considerable period its enemies would have a chance to rally and obstruct it. "We have a good example of what vacillation on the part of a school board can do," he said, "when we see how bigots were able to re...