Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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By legal maneuvers (e.g., test cases in court, redistricting), Herman Talmadge and others could continue segregation for some time. But they have little chance of making it permanent. The Supreme Court's decision was another vital chapter in one of the greatest success stories the world has ever known...
* Associate Justice Robert Jackson, recovering from a heart attack, had left the hospital that morning so all nine Justices could be present when the great decision was read. * Seventeen states and the District of Columbia have public-school segregation by specific law; four permit it. The 17: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware...
For a good 17 months the U.S. has been waiting for the Supreme Court to make its decision on five cases involving segregation in the public schools-and wondering what would happen if the court declared segregation to be illegal.
This week, as the Court did just that (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the University of North Carolina Press published the first of a series of reports that may provide some answers. Written by Little Rock's Arkansas Gazette Editor Harry S. Ashmore, The Negro and the Schools is the result...
Under the doctrine that Negroes are entitled to"separate but equal"facilities, the old wall has been crumbling for nearly 60 years. But it was not until 19 years ago that Donald Murray entered the University of Maryland Law School under court order as the first Negro ever thus to...