Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Young Carl Rowan has done well since he left his home town of McMinnville, Tenn. eight years ago. He won a Navy V12 scholarship, got one of the few Navy commissions given to Negroes, took a master's degree at the University of Minnesota and went to work as...
In Kentucky, Rowan found Negroes attending universities with whites, and though some students protested, their professors approved. Concluded Rowan: "A dying generation of the Old South will not give [segregation] up without bitterness. A misled portion of the new generation will not relinquish segregation without a battle . . . But it is...
The second step is the formation of political parties, clubs, and emergency organizations to fight for the elimination of segregation and discrimination. Thirdly, the Negro must realize that his struggle for equality in America is comparable to that of colonial peoples all over the world.
But on domestic issues, bantam-like Jimmy Byrnes, looking and acting younger than his 71 years, gave Harry Truman a keelhauling. Speaking as the natural leader and spokesman of anti-Fair Deal rebels in the whole Democratic South, he hoped that the "political proposals and socialistic programs" written into the...
All went well until last year, when Unitarian Gill began to see local conditions in terms of black & white. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was fighting segregation in Alton's schools, and Gill was openly in the anti-segregation fight. One day 175 Negro boys...