Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"Third, I looked about to see what ideas were held by individual Christians and churches in other places. I found no other laymen crusading for integration, no pastors making an issue of segregation in their sermons, no concerted action for integration on the part of churches, no clarion call for...
"Throughout the first sixty years of my life," wrote Bryant, "I never questioned but that Peter's confession that 'God is no respecter of persons' referred exclusively to the differences among white persons. Neither did I question that segregation was Christian and that it referred to the...
Pressure on Your Preacher. Few trumpets indeed were sounding in the Southern churches last week. Most ministers were like Layman Bryant-troubled. But they found other things to talk about than the problem that plagued Bryant. Most of the vocal few were vocal on the side of the lily-white...
Ignored at the Local Level. The top levels of all the Protestant denominations have declared themselves in support of the Supreme Court's desegregation rulings, but their pronouncements are often blandly ignored or actively disregarded at the local level. The Roman Catholic Church, taking the unequivocal position that segregation...
Javits called Griffin's speech an "erudite analysis of the old Southern position," but said that the Fourteenth Amendment had precluded the Governor's argument. The question is now, Javits said, "What is right for the United States?" especially in the light of the international effect of continued segregation.