Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶On the third anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision against segregation in public schools, Bobby Lynn Cain, 17. marched into the gymnasium of the Clinton (Tenn.) High School to become the first Negro ever to graduate from an integrated school in the state. How did he...
With both guests Interviewer Wallace wore himself out beating at a straw man. In questioning oldtime Cinemactress Gloria Swanson, his baiting, inquisitorial manner was not only impertinent, but-worse -not pertinent. It is too late in the century to treat either Actress Swanson's merits as a performer or...
To the slowly gathering protest of Southern Protestants against racial segregation last week was added the most powerful voice yet to be heard-the 830,000-member Southern branch of the Presbyterian Church. In a five-day conference at Birmingham, the 97th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the...
Coming only a week after 300 white and Negro pastors met at Nashville to discuss segregation in churches (TIME, May 6), the Presbyterians' message further condemned churchmen and churchgoers who worship with Jim Crow, urged ministers to create "a social climate . . . which will encourage a free concourse of men...
There was disagreement among the 475 Presbyterian delegates on the segregation issue, but when a minority report was offered, suggesting that racial problems be referred to member parishes, it was turned down. Most of the delegates left the assembly in the militant mood of Dr. Edward D. Grant, director of...