Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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One Thing He Hated. Orval Faubus did not learn about segregation in the Ozarks. "He never saw a Negro until he was a grown lad," said Uncle Sam. "Then he went away North to follow the strawberry crop when he was about 18. We only had one Negro family in...
Nashville's city officials, though brought up for the most part to believe in racial segregation, were determined to preserve the law as a necessity of their community's everyday life. "Desegregation," said School Board Chairman Pro Tem Elmer L. Pettit, "is something that has become law, and...
City officials stood by, disdaining to interfere for fear of infringing the right of free assembly. They knew that the tradition of segregation was hard to break, and they were tolerant of the protesting crowds, which broke up without open disorder. But before another dawn Nashville was to be blasted...
The Realization. Dazedly the good people of Nashville began to recognize the horror of what had occurred. Those elements of officialdom, press and public that had stood aside from the battle were shocked into a new appreciation of law and order. "Ain't things got terrible?" wailed one frail...
AT THE time the Supreme Court struck down the old separate-but-equal doctrine, on May 17, 1954, public school segregation was maintained by law in 17 states and in the District of Columbia. Last week, with a new school semester under way, a few headline-making blots of disorder...