Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Caucasian officialdom in Montgomery, Ala. (pop. 120,000) moved drastically last week to break the twelve-week-old Negro boycott of the Jim Crow city buses (TIME, Jan. 16 et seq.). Hastily dusting off an old (1921) antilabor state law forbidding restraint of trade, a grand jury voted indictment of...
Given a choice between the Keef's two primary races in March (New Hampshire March 13, Minnesota March 20), Kefauver's campaign manager is inclined to place his bets in Minnesota: "Minnesota is what really counts at the moment, and I figure we'll get a good...
At all masses in all churches throughout the archdiocese, the Roman Catholics of New Orleans listened to a pastoral letter that may prove to be a milestone in the school history of the city. "Racial segregation as such," Archbishop Rummel declared in the letter, "is morally wrong and sinful because...
State Representative E. W. Gravelot Jr., one of the Roman Catholic backers of the proposed segregation bill, promptly announced the "we intend to go ahead with it, certainly." Governor-nominee Earl Long (a Baptist) said that he felt that the archbishop was "a little too advanced." Nevertheless, he added, "from...
The Negroes do not demand an end to segregation; they simply want buses to operate on a first-come, first-served basis, with Negroes filling a bus from the rear and whites from the front. In addition, the Negoes are asking for Negro drivers in Negro areas, and for more...