Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Braden, a Kentucky newsman, presently out of prison on bail, will look at the segregation problem through a specific incident. It 1954, Braden bought a house in a white residential section, which he promptly resold to a Negro war veteran, Andrew Wade. The Wades were terrorized in subsequent months by...
Cole said he believed that the vast majority of Alabama students condemned the mob action. He pointed to the many organizations which have drafted resolutions calling for respect for the law. "Nevertheless one must remember that none of these groups have expressed opposition to segregation or have asked for the...
Few occurrences in the South since the Supreme Court's segregation decision have been more discouraging or more disgraceful than the riots over Miss Autherine Lucy's enrollment at the University of Alabama. What was at first trumpeted as an harmonious case study in "gradual integration" soon brought forth the...
Senator Eastland, in a speech interrupted 87 times by applause, proposed that the Southern states should set up a regional commission, financed with public funds, to fight the Supreme Court desegregation decision. He noted that the decision outlawed segregation in the schools "solely because of race." He thought that the...
As plain as the fact of the Democratic split on civil rights is the fact that the Republicans will make the split a campaign issue. For three years, the Eisenhower Administration has concentrated on making its civil-rights record: Government lawyers argued for school desegregation ; segregation is being wiped out...