Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In the bitter racial climate of South Africa, Cape Town (pop. 385,000) is an island of tolerance. In the city's buses white and black ride together. There is no segregation at city hall concerts or at public libraries. Of the 45 city councilmen, six are nonwhite. Last...
Last month the city council got a sharp letter from the government listing "complaints" allegedly made by visitors shocked by the lack of segregated facilities in Cape Town and insisting on apartheid. Grudgingly, the city ran a few trial Jim Crow buses and set up a Jim Crow public toilet...
The News (one of the first papers in the South to run pictures of Negroes) ran Mitchell's picture on the front page with a story that began: "Traditional race segregation in Florence lost its first court test yesterday."
Abdication. That was the last straw. Fortnight ago O'Dowd announced "a retreat from reason" in a long editorial. "It has become obvious," he wrote, "that to maintain effectiveness in other important areas of thought, this newspaper must abdicate its position in the segregation controversy. We have seen the...
Last week sympathetic letters streamed into O'Dowd's office. "Your editorial," began a typical one, "made me feel guilty." Said O'Dowd: "I realized there was a considerable amount of support for the views of moderation, but I didn't realize how big it was...