Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The bulletins from Washington that were front-paged across the nation one day last week held sensational legal and social implications: the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled that segregation is unconstitutional even on buses operating within single states, on the basis of the Fourteenth A.mendment.
It all added up to one of the biggest U.S. news snafus in years, triggered by a U.S. Supreme Court order so terse that the entire Washington press corps misunderstood it. "The appeal is dismissed," the Justices said, as they refused to accept an appeal of a case in which...
As the last cliché died away, a sheepish realization dawned that about all the U.S. had witnessed was a demonstration of how tautly its racial nerves are stretched. There was, nonetheless, a silver lining: some of the Southern bus lines that prematurely took down their segregation signs found the...
In Memphis the International Harvester Co. has had no trouble, though it has been promoting Negroes to skilled foundry and machine jobs since the plant opened in 1948. Lockheed Aircraft Corp., Georgia's biggest employer, has been equally successful in assigning Negro workers to skilled assembly and fabrication jobs...
The order was a refusal to hear the appeal of a damage suit against a South Carolina bus company for enforcing the segregation laws of that state. The presumed implications of the order led to immediate desegregation of the buses in 13 southern cities.