Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ Arizona refused to ban segregation of Negroes in its public schools.
Dean Wesley Sturges of the Yale Law School predicted that the proposal will be met with "varied emotional reactions." It represents the first time that the Association has officially considered the segregation.
Trying to explain all the contradictions, one board member insisted that the whole experiment was "not segregation but congregation-of friends." Said Board Chairman Harold Rogers: "Some people thought we were grouping according to religion. Broadly speaking, I suppose we are. but that is secondary. Our main purpose was to...
Herman M. Sweatt claimed that Texas violated his constitutional rights when it refused to admit him to the state university, while McLaurin argued that Oklahoma's state law school had illegally practiced segregation against him. Both tried to convince the Court that separate facilities cannot be equal.
In the Plessy v. Ferguson case (1896) the Court had stated that since separate facilities were not necessarily unequal, segregation did not violate the fourteenth amendment. While the judges did not reverse the 1896 decision, they did declare that the facilities provided by Texas and Oklahoma in both cases were...