Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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A Negro will speak in fovar of segregation in schools and a Southerner for its abolishment at the second Harvard Law Forum tonight at Sanders Theatre, considering the question: "Can We Afford Segregation in Our Public Schools?"
On Friday the Forum will present a discussion on "Can We Afford Segregation in Our Public Schools Now?" in Sanders Theatre. Thurgood Marshall, special counsel of the N.A.A.C.P., Marion Wright, President of the Southern Regional Council, and A. G. Ivey, Nieman Fellow, will be the speakers.
The governor of South Carolina, James Byrnes, is a distinguished politician who was once an undistinguished Secretary of State and an even less distinguished Justice of the Supreme Court. He knows the temper of his state. He and South Carolina's legislature are cheek to cheek on the question...
The governor has had his dander up ever since the state's school system came under legal fire about a year ago from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. A federal district court in Charleston ordered an improvement in school facilities for Negroes, but found nothing...
The superintendent said no, and the parents decided to go to court. But by last week, the case had become more than a simple anti-segregation suit.