Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"I Wouldn't Tell." As Stevenson spoke, the second head of the Democratic donkey was staring right at him. Governor Talmadge had recently proposed a constitutional amendment to place Georgia's school system in private hands if the U.S. Supreme Court outlaws segregation in public schools (TIME, Nov...
Prime Minister Daniel Malan, 79, announced last week that he is stepping down from his No. 1 party job: leader of the Nationalist Party in Cape Province. The news-a portent that the paunchy old Boer may soon retire as Prime Minister-brought to the surface a longtime struggle for...
Georgia's Governor Herman Talmadge last week showed how he hopes to evade a possible U.S. Supreme Court decision outlawing segregation in public schools. He proposed an amendment to the Georgia constitution which would, in effect, allow the state to 1) put public schools in private hands, and 2...
On the other hand, the lawyer for Delaware declared that Congress never intended that the Amendment should affect public school segregation, asserting that the use of the Amendment to abolish segregation in schools would be to give it a meaning "directly contrary to that given by its framers." As support...
But there is another, wider view of equality, held today by many of this country's foremost lawyers. It is one which makes a good deal of sense. It is the belief that the very act of segregation vitiates the superficial equality of facilities. Despite the talk about equality, a...