Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While other teams were playing three or four games over the vacation, Harvard was idle owing to a cancellation of the projected Southern trip because of the segregation issue. Wilson added that he would be "very pleased" to win two of the three games this week.
Although Supreme Court rulings, i.e., the ban on bus segregation in Montgomery, Ala., have made "every segregation act or law of any state as dead as a doornail," declared U.S. District Judge Dozier DeVane in Tallahassee, Fla. last week, "every state has a right to litigate these matters."
Judge DeVane, at that moment, was about as deep in litigation as he could get. Three days before, Tallahassee Negroes broke their own seven-month bus boycott and began a concerted ride-the-bus on a first-come, first-served-basis campaign. Cities Transit Inc. did not object (Negroes made...
In other places in the South last week, the anti-bus-segregation drive-and reaction to it by white extremists-went far beyond litigation. In Birmingham, Ala. the Rev. Mr. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, 34, antisegregation leader and pastor of a local Negro Baptist church, told the city commission to end...
¶ On IQ tests given last year, Negro pupils scored well below their white counterparts. In 22 elementary schools that are 99% white, for instance, the average IQ was 105, while the average in predominantly Negro schools was only 87. Though the committee jumped to the false conclusion that these...