Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In its lengthy finding last week, the ICC outlined how its decisions had consistently reflected the thinking of the Supreme Court and the trend of the country. The ICC had noted soon after its inception in 1887 that in Washington, the capital city, "white and colored children are educated in...
Segregation of Negro interstate railroad and bus passengers must be ended, effective Jan. 10, the Interstate Commerce Commission ruled last week.
From that day forth, Negroes who pay for the same interstate accommodation as whites must get the same accommodation as whites; they must also be permitted to use the same railroad waiting rooms and washrooms as whites. Said the ICC: "The disadvantage to a traveler who is assigned accommodations or...
Although many Southerners and Northerners assume that Jim Crow has been around forever, the "separate but equal" doctrine is relatively new. Before and during the Civil War, there was no legal segregation of passengers in the Southern slave states. The first Jim Crow transportation law was not written in the...
"I had to learn a whole new set of heroes when I came south," says Ted Adams, but Jim Crow never became one of them. It is on this subject that Adams' views differ most deeply from the majority of his fellow Southern Baptists. The Wor'd Alliance...