Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Executives of the Red and Black, University of Georgia newspaper, resigned last November rather than comply with pressure by University Regents and state politicians to stop the editors' stand against racial segregation.
When the top editors resigned, other staff members took over the paper, but they, in turn, resigned after the University imposed faculty censorship on the paper. This spring, the new managing editor, running for president, took a stand against segregation. He was unanimously defeated by a student-faculty board of...
Elsewhere in the South, citizens and officials were also facing the problems brought on by the U.S. Supreme Court's decision against segregation in the public schools. St. Louis took the first step by removing the color line in its special schools for handicapped children. White and Negro pupils...
In urging passage of the amendment, Governor Hugh White blamed the "crisis" in part on Mississippi's Negro leaders, who are reluctant to approve continued segregation. But he insisted that "there is no intention to 'defy' the Supreme Court; we are simply exercising the same legal right...
Outside Mississippi, local school officials and pressure groups tried, with varying success, to implement or resist the Supreme Court decision against segregation. Items: