Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In Louisville, a segregationist composed a battle hymn: "Stand firmly by your cannon/Let ball and grapeshot fly/And trust in God and Faubus/But keep your powder dry." In Alabama four potential candidates for governor set a political pattern for the South, each desperately trying to outdo the others in praise of...
Fury in the North. The North, which has its own segregation faults, watched and smoldered with resentment. A Long Island summer-theater audience heard South Pacific Heroine Nellie Forbush say she was from Little Rock, stopped the performance with three minutes of furious boos and hisses. A drugstore clerk in...
Politically, Orval Faubus stabbed at the heart of his own Democratic Party. During the 85th Congress, Texans Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn had labored tirelessly, skillfully and successfully to avoid a ruinous party blowup over civil rights. They had even contrived to put a Democratic stamp of sorts on civil...
Sir: Your story on Senator Richard Russell and the South's fight on the so-called civil rights bill was, in TIME'S fashion, just one more sermon for compulsory integration-not so effective a sermon, however, as your picture of Manhattan's integrated teen-age gangsters...
Archbishop Rummel declined to comment. But in Rome a Vatican spokesman quickly slapped down the letter as "a grave error." Apart from the fact that the New Orleans group committed a breach of discipline in making public an appeal over the authority of their archbishop, they should have known that...