Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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On June 7, 1948, said Dewey, John Sparkman became the "busiest Jim Crow agent in America."* On that he voted against 1) abolishing segregation in the armed forces, 2) an anti-lynching measure to protect members of the armed forces, 3) exempting servicemen from paying poll taxes.
They give two reasons: First, that course monitors could not avoid counting upperclass noses unless all the upperclassmen sat together. While such segregation is undesirable, it is also unnecessary. Upperclassmen can be assigned seats with no obligation to dutifully occupy them, and the course monitors can simply leave these places...
Last March Prime Minister Daniel Malan's apartheid (segregation) crusade bumped into a legal barrier. South Africa's Supreme Court declared unconstitutional a Malan law disfranchising 50,000 Cape Coloreds (persons of mixed white and black ancestry). Malan's answer was to set up Parliament as a...
In the genteel Cape Province town of Grahamstown, 58 Negroes were jailed for walking in the streets after curfew (11 p.m.). In Pretoria, 20 singing Negroes and one Indian were arrested for marching into the "white" section of the railway station. Eight hundred nonwhites were in jail in East London...
Despite his success at breaking down the legal wall of segregation that has long surrounded higher education in Texas, Heman Sweatt, 39, the first Negro admitted to the University of Texas law school, found the study of law a much tougher proposition. Last year he flunked out. But Dean Page...