Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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As I arrived, the women in the group were filing through the doors into the courtroom, each one clutching her card. Why the sexes were separated was not made clear--perhaps it was not made clear crude sense of chivalry that sent the women in first; perhaps the IBM machines...
For 75 years, Illinois has had a law against segregation in public schools, but the city of Cairo (rhymes with faro) has never paid much attention. Cairo (pop. 12,400) happens to sit well below the Mason-Dixon line at the point where the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers meet. To...
Elementary Answer. By last week, Cairo's dream of the segregated life had been rudely shattered. For the first time in years, fiery crosses burned, and the magnolia-lined streets echoed with shots and explosions. The reason: two field workers from the midwest regional office of the National Association...
Is It Right? Some officials were ready to agree. Even the Labor Party, with its Socialistic love of the tidy plan for everything, had worried over the fact that "the three types of schools are bound to inherit the old traditions of class segregation . . . [with] some children resentfully concluding that...
This is the first in the Law Forum's spring series, which will include debates on music, and segregation in schools.