Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even more important in British eyes is the need to build a strong bulwark of British power and civilization in Central Africa. Afrikaners are flocking into the Rhodesias at the rate of 2,000 a month; many of them are anti-British and determined to bring the Rhodesias into the...
Most of all, they would like to encourage Harry Truman to retire, by showing him that the South is ready to stage a first-class revolt. Their greatest complaint against Truman: his race policies. They abhor the proposal for a federal fair employment practices law, which would strike at segregation...
After supporting much of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, Russell broke sharply with the Truman Administration, supported the Taft-Hartley law, opposed the Brannan farm plan. On civil rights, he has followed the Southern line without deviation, defending segregation, the filibuster and the poll tax, opposing FEPC. Arguing that...
As part of the conference, sponsored by the Harvard U.N. Council, Miss Joan Human of the South African Government Information Office told the 150 delegates from New England colleges Saturday that segregation is the best policy for South Africa. A resident of Liberia challenged her and inquired whether "this woman...
"Segregation will always mean discrimination," he said, for its conditions "are always separate, never equal." He decried segregation's "folly and waste," citing the cost of establishing equal facilities in the South for Negoes at one billion dollars.