Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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But the court went far beyond the specific litigation of the Little Rock case to look at the web of integration-dodging laws being spun throughout the South. "State legislators or state executive or judicial officers," said the court, cannot nullify "the constitutional rights of children not to be discriminated...
Hot Words. Labor M.P. Fred Peart cried that fee-charging education "buys positions of privilege in industry and politics. What's good enough for the dull son of a rich man must be good enough for the brilliant son of the poor man ... I condemn racial segregation; and I...
This year NSA passed one hundred resolutions, purporting to be the voice of American students. They gave an average of three to five minutes debate on each resolution, often failed to explain them and laughed down opposition to the resolution on the floor. No advance notice was given of the...
Throughout the Bible Belt only a handful of pulpits ring with talk about the brotherhood of man-if brotherhood implies sitting together in a schoolroom. Pro-segregation sentiment is strongest in the areas where the rooted religion is Baptist and where the pentecostal sects flourish.
Underground Work. The denominational churches, including Presbyterians, Methodists and Episcopalians, include far more anti-segregation partisans. Even so, men like Dr. William M. Elliott of the Highland Park Presbyterian Church of Dallas, who has frequently denounced segregation as morally indefensible, and Episcopal Minister Duncan Gray Jr. of St. Peter'...