Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ There are no burning issues: Truman, McCarthy, time for a change, mink coats, depression, boys in foxholes and Alger Hiss lie muted beneath the surface. The Eisenhower health issue has been knocked out by Ike's robust appearance, and the Nixon issue is undermined by Nixon's...
The Senators among whom Herman will take his confident place will find this new colleague a jack of many trades. He owns 4,000 fertile acres of farmland, chairmans booming young insurance and investment companies, has built a $40,000-a-year law practice, dabbles profitably in real estate, markets...
It is not yet clear what effect, if any, the present acrimonious debate on segregation will have on tightening the lines of communication between North and South. Quite possibly the issue will tend to increase the sectionalism of the South in regard to education.
But what if a community decides to permit integration anyway and support its school on its own? To prevent that-and to make sure that the drastic fundwithholding idea will be only a last resort -the Virginia House of Delegates and Senate passed three supplementary bills to keep segregation as...
For behind the words "Faculty Committee on Athletics" and "control of eligibility" lay a certain, resolute position--that Harvard University cannot accept the principle of segregation and will not be a party to its practice on the athletic field any more than in ordinary educational procedures.