Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shortly after the Supreme Court's decision in May, 1954, outlawing segregation in public schools, sociologists warned that race relations in this country were likely to become worse before getting better. The Till murder trial, the riots surrounding Autherine Lucy's attempt to enter the University of Alabama, the mobilization...
Gradualism implies one other attribute, more perhaps of mind than of policy. It is one often overlooked by Northern Crusaders who want to ride off on a charger--whether black or white--and blaze a trail for The Cause of Integration. And this is that the North, too, has its...
In the light of Ike's timidity, the statements made recently by Stevenson (hitherto considered the clever and cautious politician) seem especially startling. Last spring the CRIMSON sharply criticized Stevenson for shilly-shallying--his moderation seemed to have only political motives. But his attitudes this fall indicate that moderation, with...
Right Relationship. His campaign was immensely aided by the fact that the city was desegregating generally. Branch libraries, the General Hospital, city-owned parks and swimming pools were being thrown open to Negroes. "The school-community relationship has been right," he says. "A lot of people still prefer segregation. But...
Caleb, My Son, by Lucy Daniels. A 22-year-old Southern girl's softspoken, painfully honest tale of the new hopes and old heartaches that the Supreme Court's anti-segregation decision brought to the South (TIME, Sept. 10).