Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ Appointed Florida's moderately conservative former (1929-33) Governor Doyle Elam Carlton, 70, to the new Civil Rights Commission to fill the vacancy left by retired Supreme Court Justice Stanley Reed (TIME, Dec. 16). Says Democrat Carlton, who keeps his sentiments on segregation largely to himself: "I will...
The judge was identified as gaunt, greying Judge Raulston Schoolfield, 51, unsuccessful 1954 candidate for governor against Frank Clement and currently president of two separate Tennessee segregation societies. Six years ago 13 teamsters, including Chattanooga Local 515's President Glenn W. Smith and Secretary-Treasurer Hubert L. Boling, were...
"The Gazette has played a leading role in breaking dow?n our segregation laws, and at last bringing upon the people of Little Rock the most insufferable outrage ever visited upon an American city. There is a rising tide of race feeling-in fact, a revolution is beginning in the...
As a result of these policies, the NAACP has come under a rather intense legal fire in many of the southern states, which appear determined to hound and harass that organization out of existence. The NAACP has been a prime mover in bringing school segregation cases into the federal courts...
The essentially undemocratic tradition of racial inequality which has flourished in the South for centuries has apparently undermined and eliminated forces concerned with protecting the right of equal opportunity and freedom of association. The states' persecution of the NAACP shows that the spirit of segregation still dominates the South, which...