Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Near Durban, Natal, 150 fellow Indians gathered to watch Manilal Gandhi, 58-year-old son of the late Mahatma, sip a glass of lemon juice, honey and hot water, to break his 14-day fast held in protest over South Africa's segregation laws. Gandhi, 20 Ibs. lighter, announced...
The stickiest issue of all was an amendment to give draftees the choice of service in a segregated unit. Here Southerner Vinson, an outspoken opponent of the proposal, got impassioned support from Chicago's Democratic William Dawson, one of the two Negroes in the House, whose face bears scars...
Manilal Gandhi, 58, son of the late Mohandas Gandhi, stepped into South Africa's tense racial controversy last week. He announced that he would fast for 14 days and would then notify Prime Minister Malan when & where he proposed to break certain of the government's racial laws...
Governor James F. Byrnes's threat to abandon the public school system in South Carolina rather than give up segregation (TIME, March 26) got a sharp answer last week from the only Negro Nobel Prizewinner. Said Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, professor of government at Harvard (on leave) and onetime...
* As the law has been interpreted by the Supreme Court, segregation is legal, provided the state furnishes equal facilities for whites and Negroes.