Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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It was the second switch of site for the association in the past four months. Originally, the convention was scheduled for Mississippi. But Georgia's Attorney General Eugene Cook, president of the association, refused to invite U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell because of the Administration's stand against...
The winning team of Gerald L. Cherry '56, Edward M. Ginsberg '55, and Richard M. Stenson '56 successfully argued that it was physically impossible and socially undesirable to "require immediate compliance with the Supreme Court decision outlawing segregation in the nation's public schools."
Admitting that "segregation should be ended as soon as possible," the Crimson debaters claimed that the disorder which might follow immediate desegregation would not improve Negro educational opportunities.
Crimson debaters will uphold the negative against Yale tonight on the topic: "Resolved, That the U.S. government should require immediate compliance with the Supreme Court decision outlawing segregation in the nation's public schools." The debate will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Emerson D.
When the Supreme Court outlawed school segregation (TIME, May 24), some Manatee County taxpayers wanted to cancel their $1,750,000 school building authorization. Last week the Florida Supreme Court refused their plea, arguing that the new schools were needed and that it would take a long time to desegregate...