Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Priests preached no sermons last Sunday in the Roman Catholic diocese of Raleigh, N.C. Instead, they read a letter from Bishop Vincent S. Waters ending in one stroke all racial segregation in the Catholic churches of his diocese.
"Let me state here as emphatically as I can," wrote Virginia-born Bishop Waters, "that there is no segregation of races to be tolerated in any Catholic church in the diocese of Raleigh. The pastors are charged with the carrying out of this teaching and shall tolerate nothing to the...
¶ If segregation is unconstitutional, what kind of court decisions could effect an orderly change in existing segregated school systems?
From the court's questions, lawyers guessed that a decision against segregation was being held up by the court's concern over a practical, perhaps gradual, way to do away with segregation.
76. The official racial segregation policy of South Africa.