Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The statements of the four party leaders show clearly that opinions on integration do not divide along party lines. Stevenson and Eisenhower are certainly closer on this question than either is to the less moderate elements in his own party. And while Warren may be a "great Republican," the Court...
Such papers as Sullens' Daily News now run more Negro crime news under bigger headlines than ever before-even when it means going as far afield as Chicago. They spike occasional wire stories that show integration working, e.g., a recent A.P. dispatch about the acceptance of three Negroes at...
Against this strident tone a new Jackson daily, the State Times (TIME, March 7), tried to sound a more moderate note on racial issues. When the paper started about a year ago, Editor Norman Bradley, an alumnus of the liberal Chattanooga Times, played desegregation news calmly, sometimes chided the state...
Actually, many Southern newsmen took it for granted that their papers would soft-pedal such an emotionally explosive issue. But the surprise is that so many editors are now willing to stick their necks out. It is only about ten years since newspapers in the South began in any numbers...
Against that background even anti-segregation newsmen feel that any great improvement in the coverage of integration will come just as gradually as integration itself. Says Colbert ("Pete") McKnight, editor of the Charlotte, N.C. Observer, one of the region's most conscientious dailies: "Northern editors try to oversimplify our...