Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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I can't help feeling, from hearing a few arguments over the long distance phone, that the critics have failed to take my main point, and that they somewhere along the way feel that I am advocating something, be it white supremacy, or segregation.
The critics may not like these factors, but they should not make believe that they are not here, no more than they should make the mistake that I endorse them. They are here, and they must be dealt with. It is all very well to be in Cambridge and say...
Recently in these columns David L. Halberstam '55 presented a well-documented review of the segregation problem entitled "The Negro in the South." He might have been more accurate, however, had he entitled his three pieces "The White in the South." His observations begin with a conscientious appraisal of segregation...
Cook called the Supreme Court's segregation decision "A flagrant example of usurpation of power," and served notice that "we Georgians intend to circumvent it."
Cook, a leader in the fight to circumvent the decision, said that "in the Deep South, the overwhelming majority of both whites and Negroes agrees that segregation serves the best interest of both races." The minority, which he estimated at five per cent, consists, he said, of "paid agitators and...