Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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THOMAS JEFFERSON, the 2nd governor of Virginia, who ranked the education of the common people "above all things," proposed the nation's first public-school system in 1779. Last week James Lindsay Almond, 66th in the line of Virginia's Governors, who ranks segregation of the races above...
This fact, more than any other, pointed up the need for a change in the Administration's position. Dwight Eisenhower, honorably intending to stay above the battle and base his case on the enforcement of law and order, had overlooked the fact that the U.S. needed moral leadership in...
¶ The hard-hitting drive of New Orleans' Archbishop Joseph Francis Rummel against racial segregation has petered out under pressure from laymen and private opposition from many of the clergy, and the desegregation that the archbishop planned for New Orleans parochial schools has been indefinitely postponed.
¶ Of five Catholic Interracial Centers called Friendship Houses that existed five years ago (in New York, Chicago, Washington, Portland, Ore. and Shreveport, La.), only two remain within the national organization-in Chicago and New York. Despite such signs of setback, the mood of the delegates was hopeful. "After all...
Within hours the headlines shouted the word. IKE FOR SLOWER INTEGRATION, Said New York's World-Telegram. This was just about the last thing he had meant; what he had obviously wanted to say, as he had said many times before, was that Americans should exercise patient judgment in...