Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Civil disobedience is the keynote of the movement. Every week, hundreds of volunteers in South Africa defy the segregation laws and go to jail for it. They cross bridges, enter movie theatres, trains, and restaurants which are "For Europeans only." This campaign is led by the African National Congress and...
Most cities saddled with an ineffectual mayor and aldermen can vote them out of office. But voters in the District of Columbia, whose city council is the United States Congress and whose mayor the President, have no such easy recourse. The barbed problem of segregation illustrates their powerless position; the...
The President, in his State of the Union message, promised relief for this city split by color barriers. First, he promised to ask restaurateurs and other offenders to end their discrimination. Then Attorney General Herbert Brownell appealed a lower court order which had invalidated an old anti-segregation law. Neither...
The one decisive answer is to pass a determined, modern anti-segregation bill.
"You can't legislate against prejudice" is a complacent old saw for justifying a segregated status quo. Discrimination, however, can be outlawed as a step toward eliminating prejudice. In 1948, Truman effectively barred any consideration of color in filling government posts and ended segregation in government restaurants. A new anti...