Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most practical segregationists hope only to delay integration as long as possible, by legal tactics and by convincing Negroes that they are better off in their own schools. Faubus, on the contrary, played his entire hand in about three weeks and the result is not segregation.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Sept. 25--Citizens of this border state capital proved today that racial segregation is not worth the price of active resistance. They demonstrated, at least, that when faced with the armed might of 400 federal troops, discretion is the better part of valor.
Delaware. Out of 61 school districts with both white and Negro children, 18 have wholly or partly ended segregation, with Wilmington entirely integrated and the southern half of the state still segregated. But the U.S. District Court has ordered the easygoing state board of education, which had left integration up...
Missouri. With seven new districts partially integrating this semester, integration in Missouri is well along. No serious integration disorder has been reported since compliance with the Supreme Court's order got under way three years ago. This year the state legislature finally repealed the old segregation statutes, passed a...
Texas. After a promising start, the pace of integration has slowed down. Of 800-odd school districts with both white and Negro children, 122 have at least partly integrated, and so have several state-supported colleges. But in eastern Texas, where 90% of the Negro schoolchildren live, segregation fences are...