Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Supreme Court edict outlawing segregation in public schools knocks the hell out of Jim Crow and makes all other forms of segregation and discrimination look sillier than ever. TIME'S March 24 article on the ruling should be read by every American ... It is so important now that...
Three cheers for the Supreme Court . . . but it's sad that the Government should have accomplished so much, and these social clubs that call themselves churches so little. That schools should end segregation before the churches seems to support the idea that the church in America is becoming obsolete...
¶ Saw a new battle developing on public housing. Within three hours after the Administration's housing bill was reported out by the Senate Banking & Currency Committee, South Carolina's Democratic Senator Burnet Maybank, long a champion of public housing, introduced an amendment to wipe out all provisions...
Handbills scattered over North Carolina last week proclaimed: "Vote for Kerr Scott . . . [He] has aided our cause of nonsegregation . . . A friend of the Negro." In North Carolina the handbills were obviously no help at all to William Kerr Scott, 58, tobacco-chewing ex-governor running for the Senate seat to...
¶ After sharp debate, the 94th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (Southern) voted 236 to 169 to condemn racial segregation as out of harmony with Christian theology and ethics.