Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, far from shellshocked, but obviously aware that it was dealing with high explosives, the Supreme Court settled back to listen to three days of argument on the U.S.'s sharpest social issue: segregation of Negroes and whites in public schools. Segregation is mandatory under the laws of...
The N.A.A.C.P. lawyers turned scornfully on segregation in the nation's capital. "There is no place for a segregated school system in the capital of the free world," said Counsel James M. Nabrit Jr. Attorney George Hayes argued that segregation, imposed by the District's board of education...
The District's lawyers had a strange rebuttal. Congress established Washington's separate Negro schools in 1862 to "elevate" the ex-slaves, said Assistant Corporation Counsel Milton Korman. Washington Negroes have never had nonsegregated education, hence "they haven't enjoyed any right that has been taken away...
Last year Herman Talmadge's Georgia legislature decided that any school district which did not provide separate schools would automatically lose its state funds. If segregation is declared unconstitutional, Georgia intends to turn the schools over to private operators and some how parcel state funds to individual students and...
The South is painfully aware that "separate but equal," if fully carried out, imposes a double tax burden which most communities cannot stand. And therein lies the hope of Southern reformers for an evolutionary answer to segregation without a drastic new court decision. Some Southern school districts would rather combine...