Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In South Africa last week, the supreme court put a crimp in apartheid, the system of rigid racial segregation by which Prime Minister Daniel Malan hopes forever to separate 2,600,000 whites from four times their number of nonwhites. A Cape Town Negro named George Lusu had been arrested...
Yet secretly the Nationalists were delighted at the court's decision. Deep in a national election campaign in which the No. 1 issue is "How tough should we get with the blacks?", their candidates can now paint vote-getting pictures of what might happen if apartheid is relaxed, if...
"I propose," said Dwight Eisenhower in his State of the Union message last month, "to use whatever authority exists in the office of the President to end segregation in the District of Columbia including the Federal Government . . ." Last week the Administration began making good on the pledge: in a brief...
Said Brownell: "Several hundred thousand federal employees, representing every segment of our population, work and live in the District of Columbia area. It is the established policy of the United States that its employees shall be hired, and shall work together, without regard to any differences of race or color...
4. Segregation of Negro school children.