Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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No Trouble. The 1920 convention had taken a defensive stand by deploring lynchings (65 that year, against 2 in 1950) and pleading for more civil rights. Last week such speakers as Author Lillian Smith, Dr. Ralph Bunche and N.A.A.C.P. Secretary Walter White, the son of an Atlanta mailman, hammered away...
Police bent over backwards to see that delegates were not molested. One bus driver, who seemed more confused than indignant when two girl delegates, one white and one colored, entered his bus and sat together, called for a cop. After the policeman spotted the convention badges worn by the girls...
Police Escort. Atlanta's largest nonsegregated audience since Reconstruction days jammed the municipal auditorium to hear a speech by Nobel Prizewinner Bunche, which closed the six-day convention. He lashed the Senate for failing to pass Civil Rights legislation, said bluntly: "I can never be fully relaxed in Atlanta...
Squatting hugely across the Potomac from Washington, it is a defiant enclave of non-segregation in segregated Virginia: Negro & white personnel use the same rest rooms and eat in the same dining rooms. Its teeming workers communicate with each other through 2,100 intercoms, 15 miles of pneumatic tubes, and...
Few nations on earth are less color-conscious than Brazil, none more so than the Union of South Africa. Last week, when the Brazilian navy training ship Almirante Saldanha docked in Cape Town harbor, a shipload of sailors and officers ranging in skin tone from pale copper to charcoal black...