Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In order to understand how Southerners feel about race relations one must imagine himself born into a heritage of white supremacy and seeming Negro shiftlessness. This attitude, which is reinforced by everything one sees and hears in Mississippi, can be altered by only one method--improved education. Unfortunately, not only...
To begin to understand the intelligent Mississippian's dislike of immediate integration (not one of the five gubernatorial candidates showed any compromise on this issue in last summer's election primary), one starts with the fact that in this state the Negro is both plentiful and terribly backward, and is...
* South Africa's walkout in the U.N. a fortnight ago, on the ground that racial segregation is its own domestic affair, saved South Africa from debating its activities in South West Africa, which it would find harder to justify and more of the U.N.'s business.
One leader who was having no part of such ruses was Maryland's Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin, governor of the state that had been directly ordered to end park and playground segregation. Said McKeldin: "Officials of the State of Maryland have never to my knowledge questioned the supremacy in the...
Last week South Africa fought a bitter and unsuccessful campaign against renewing the mandate of a three-man U.N. commission which has been investigating apartheid (racial segregation). When the U.N.'s Political Committee voted, 37 to 7 (with 13 abstentions), to prolong the commission's life, South Africa...