Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Governor Marvin Griffin of Georgia last night charged that the Supreme Court's segregation decision represents a "palpable and flagrant" usurpation of states' rights and an attempt "to transmute socialistic theory into law."
Debating the segregation issue with Griffin, Jacob K. Javits, Attorney General of New York State, predicted that wherever public funds and public authority are involved, all attempts at interposition will be "swept aside."
Griffin has consistently been an out-spoken Southern leader in defiance of the Supreme Court's ruling against segregation in public schools.
Marvin Griffin, Governor of Georgia and leading opponent of integration, will debate Jacob K. Javits, New York State Attorney General, on the issue of Southern segregation tonight in a Law School Forum.
At week's end Tennessee's Kefauver dropped into Nashville to tighten the wires on his home fences. Asked why he had refused to sign the Southern congressional manifesto (TIME, March 26) condemning the Supreme Court decision on desegregation of the public schools, Kefauver said evenly: "The Supreme...