Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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But when they had finished, Jonathan Daniels, national committeeman from North Carolina and onetime White House assistant, walked to the microphone. "I was one of the eleven Southern delegates who voted for Harry Truman in 1948, so I don't have to prove my allegiance," he began. "I come...
Republicans joyfully saw the result as a harbinger of a national conservative trend. Administration forces tried to tell themselves that the Communist issue had beaten Pepper, not the Fair Deal. On-the-scene political writers mostly believed that while the Red attack had something to do with it, what had...
Harvard has taken great pride in its reputation as a liberal and democratic institution. If this pride is not to turn to hypocrisy, Harvard must not submit to the increasing pressures of the cold war hysteria and conform to all the anti-democratic criteria which would be necessary to prove...
Besides many cases involving labor rights, and several anti-trust suits, the Court has some important civil rights decisions to make. It must decide whether the separate Negro law school that the University of Texas set up for Marion Sweatt is equal--Sweatt claims it is not. And the Court...
According to Blanshard, the U.S. public school is "the basis of democracy." Catholic canon law, he pointed out, rules "that an American Catholic mother who sends her child to an American public school over the objection of a priest can be denied absolution in the confessional." This, he said, was...