Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ Urged Congress not to let argument over an anti-segregation amendment hold up passage of the $1.6 billion, four-year school-construction bill on the grounds that "the need of the American children for schools is today" and that "the Supreme Court in reaching its [antisegregation] decision . . . specifically provided...
In the venerable State Capitol at Richmond, where Robert E. Lee accepted his commission as commander of the rebel Virginia troops, the governors of four Southern states last week proclaimed a pattern of opposition to the Supreme Court of the U.S. Governors Thomas Stanley of Virginia, James Plemon Coleman of...
Into the Tennessee State Capitol at Nashville tramped 250 demonstrators bearing banners that read TENNESSEE BETRAYED, SEGREGATION OR WAR, and GOD, THE ORIGINAL SEGREGATIONIST. Representatives of the Tennessee Society to Maintain Segregation Inc., the Associated Citizens' Councils of Tennessee, and Pro-Southerners Inc., the demonstrators came to persuade Governor...
Throughout the state of Virginia, an icy wind blew. Freezing rain fell in the north, and there was snow in the mountains of the southwest. But last week Virginians trooped to the polls in force to chalk up a vote second only to the state record set in the 1952...
More important and more basic than the questions of amount and segregation, is the dire shortage of teachers. Though intimately connected with school construction, it is badly neglected in the President's proposals. His only offering is "my earnest hope that ... the states and communities will give increasing attention to...