Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mississippi officials feel strongly that the Northern press, through "sensationalism," has been misrepresenting the facts on segregation in their state. Last week Mississippi invited 20 small-town New England editors and publishers to come down at the state's expense to learn "the truth about what segregation is, and...
Before the Yankee editors got started, Mississippi's Governor J. P. Coleman explained that segregation would continue in Mississippi "for at least the next 50 years. We don't intend to obey the Supreme Court's decision because it is not based on law." But, he assured...
Retreat with Dignity. More personable, more genial and more subtle as he grew secure in office, Herman began to build a core of support that even old Gene had never achieved. Businessmen who financed Georgia's political campaigns liked Herman's lower corporation taxes and found his conservative...
Labor's "radical temper" was shown principally in two policy directives: 1) a housing policy which commits the party to municipal ownership of 6,000,000 rent-controlled houses, and 2) a program for greater equality which commits it to a capital-gains tax and an attempt at cutting...
¶Refusing to grant an injunction to citizens of Clinton, Tenn. who want to bar integration in their schools, the Tennessee State Supreme Court declared that all state laws to enforce segregation in the public schools are unconstitutional and therefore unenforceable.