Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unofficial segregation is nothing new. But in its attempt to do something about it this year, the New York municipal government has been caught in a vise of public opinion. William Jansen, Superintendent of Schools, has been pressured on one side by the parents of "segregated" pupils, and on the...
The Supreme Court's action threw Virginia officials into a state of uncertainty about their next action. The state's attorney general, Kenneth Patty, said: "I just don't know and am unable to say what the effect will be on the over-all segregation picture in the state."
Judge Hoffman, in holding the Pupil Placement Act unconstitutional, said it provided no adequate remedy for Negroes seeking admission to white schools because of what he described as "the fixed and definite policy of school authorities with respect to segregation."
By week's end the U.S. had not only won back but gained ground in Ghana-and in Delaware. "I hope," said Minister Gbedemah as he flew home, "that the people of Ghana understand that there are very few people in the U.S. who act that way." And the...
Most dogged in the doom-crying, North or South, was Pundit David Lawrence, whose five-times-weekly column appears in 270 dailies, 62 of them in the South. By last week Lawrence (also editor of U.S. News & World Report) had written 18 consecutive columns on the evils of enforced integration...