Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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New Orleans' 79-year-old Archbishop Joseph Francis Rummel, a famed enemy of segregation (three years ago he banned Jim Crow benches in New Orleans' Catholic churches), met the issue head-on but gently. Instead of cutting off the congregation from all spiritual ministrations, he merely suspended services...
. . . Your cover of Thurgood Marshall was offensive, and your account of the segregation problem unfair and untrue. You dam-yankees are all alike-just plain stupid-and not worthy of a good lynching!
It seems that all the discussion about segregation has failed to mention the one and only thing that can be done to rectify this injustice done by the Supreme Court-and do it legally.
We must give the court an opportunity to reverse its opinion on segregation. I have great respect for our Supreme Court, but this is not the first time that this learned body has been in error, nor would it be its first time to reverse a decision . . .
. . . Your eulogy to desegregation-with-a-club [reveals] that where the Negro population is less than 10%, segregation is no problem, but as the percentage increases so does the problem. Soooo, the Negro is most liked where he least is ...