Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the U.S. Supreme Court agreed with his principle if not with his estimate of the damages. By refusing to review an appeals court verdict, the Supreme Court 1) awarded Chance $55 damages, and 2) extended to railway coaches in interstate traffic the non-segregation ruling laid down for...
Efforts to end-segregation in the South will receive support from the Radcliffe Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Harvard Society for Minority Rights. The two groups plan to hold a party early next month to help pay expenses for test cases coming before the Supreme Court...
The campus promptly erupted with protests, and nine out of ten members of the theological faculty threatened to resign unless the regents reversed their decision. The regents replied that Tennessee requires segregation, that it would be flouting the state law to admit Negroes. But the nine, led by Dean Francis...
Several professors yesterday agreed the Supreme Court's refusal to review a lower court decision prohibiting segregation of Negroes on railway cars was a small step--but a step forward, at any rate--in the fight against Jim Crow laws in the South.
In 1948, William C. Chance, a Negro, was ejected from an Atlantic Coastline train in Virginia when he refused to move to a Negro coach. He sued, and the Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond decided in 1951 the Company's segregation rule was invalid. The Supreme Court now, in...