Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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All in all, we feel that the Supreme Court decision was a wise one. But we are offended by some people who try to tell us how to solve our problems-people who come from sections of the country where segregation is unlawful but exists in just as vicious a...
"We have by unanimous votes undertaken to lead the peoples who are Under France's protection to a position where they can manage their own affairs. This solemn promise-can France dream of failing to abide by it? No! These countries, whom France has civilized and enriched, she will...
¶The Protestant Episcopal Church has a relatively liberal attitude toward integration. The North Georgia Convention recently declared that "segregation on the basis of race alone is inconsistent with the principles of the Christian religion." In Atlanta, while services are segregated, white and Negro children are confirmed together, and whites...
¶The all-white Southern Baptist Convention, biggest Baptist group in the world (membership: 7,883,708), has taken an equivocal stand on segregation, last year commended the Supreme Court for "deferring" application of its ruling on desegregation. Two Negro Baptist conventions have 7,133,357 members, operate separately from...
Citation: "It was under your leadership that the vexed and thorny issue of educational segregation was decided in such unanimity as to demonstrate to the whole world that in this land there is, and will forever be, one law for all."