Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"Should the federal courts outlaw segregation in our schools we will, if it be possible, live within the law, preserve the public school system, and maintain segregation at the same time.
South Carolina Governor James F. Byrnes was worried about an anti-segregation suit due for hearing in Charleston federal court this May. Regardless of the outcome there, he was sure the issue would eventually go right on up to his old colleagues on the U.S. Supreme Court, too. Last week...
Marshall, returning from an investigation in Korea, denounced the Army's policy of segregation and held up the Navy and Air Force policies as successful examples of integration of white and Negro troops. He traced injustice in the trials to Negro segregation.
Others, presuming that normal appropriation bills and war expenses would be cared for somehow, suggested laws to abolish racial segregation in the District of Columbia, a permanently-financed Point Four program, approval of the St. Lawrence Seaway project, and creation of a new Cabinet post of Peace and Human Welfare...
Prof. Zechariah Chafee, Jr. would have Congress abolish all racial segregation in the District of Columbia. He submits that discrimination between all sorts of citizens is hurting the United States in the U.N.