Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marland appointed Laird to the state board of education, where he faced the segregation problem, came to a personal conclusion that "the Supreme Court's opinions are the law of the land." (West Virginia has moved as rapidly toward integration as any border state.) Later Marland switched Laird to...
Out of the U.S. South last week blew a chill and ominous wind, a wind that carried with it the echoes of half-forgotten battles and the seeds of conflict yet to come. In Montgomery, Ala., where the Confederacy was born, obdurate Negroes persisted in their 3½-month-old...
For James Oliver Eastland, senior U.S. Senator from Mississippi, and spiritual leader of Southern resistance to school desegregation, this was a relatively restrained statement. In less temperate moments, Eastland has trumpeted the traditional Southern creed with a bluntness unsurpassed in the postwar U.S. From the floor of the U.S. Senate...
At the 1956 Democratic Convention, a civil rights plank may touch off a North-South fight so hot that Southern delegates will bolt the party. The chance that this will happen is increased by the accepted probability that Eisenhower will win whether or not the South bolts. Some Southerners may...
Griffin joined three other governers in January to plan a campaign to fight segregation. The group drafted a statement to stress states' rights and oppose integration. The report emphasized the legality of "interposition" of states between the Federal government and citizens and the employment of all legal means to carry...