Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ironically, George's increasing influence in Washington in 1956 was no gauge of his political position at home, especially in the wool-hat back country, where Herman Talmadge is strongest. He had been away too long. Georgia political leaders thought that his moderate position on segregation was an important...
O11 Gene's Boy. Herman Talmadge, who now appears to have clear sailing to the U.S. Senate, has no such trouble on the segregation issue. He learned his politics at the baggy knee of his father, gallus-snapping "Ol' Gene" Talmadge, one of the South's most...
The similarities in clothing, automobiles, leisure, and most of the personal people--the smile, the kind word, the interest each person is supposed to take in his neighbor by using first names--hide poorly the great barriers of prejudice. Let's not elaborate upon the Negroes, who are strictly excluded...
In cavernous Minneapolis Auditorium one day last week, the 766 delegates to the Quadrennial General Conference of the Methodist Church, representing more than 9,000,000 Methodists, stood up and applauded. Reason for their enthusiasm: the convention's solution of the most indigestible problem with which they had been...
Having a month ago passed a resolution endorsing segregation in the public schools, the school board of Louisiana's Bossier Parish (just across the Red River from Shreveport) took another step toward the preservation of its most cherished tradition. Last week it banned from all nine high-school libraries...