Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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>Voted down, 222-117, a proposal for a $5,000,000 Veterans Hospital for Negroes at Booker T. Washington's birthplace, Franklin County, Va. Support for it was led by Dixiecrat John Rankin, who said piously that it would provide better treatment for Negroes. Opposition was led by the...
Roberts got his interview by an old reporter's trick: he sent word to MacArthur that the Communist Daily Worker and some Negro papers had been calling MacArthur a "white supremacist," blaming him for Army segregation in the Far East and for "excessive" court-martialing of Negroes. Roberts asked...
Other athletes were divided as to the harms of "segregating" athletes in the Varsity Club and Boat House. The anonymous senior called this segregation "very bad," but a junior on the football team said he would rather live in the Club next year than in his House.
To end the resentment caused by the "segregation of athletes" in the Varsity Club and Weld Boat House, the committee proposes that a Room Fund be set up to help pay the House rents of needy scholars.
Editor Hodding Carter of the Greenville (Miss.) Delta Democrat-Times has helped make Greenville a notable example of tolerance in the race-and religion-conscious South. Although Negroes outnumber whites nearly two to one in the Greenville area, there is little friction between the two races. Carter, a determined but...