Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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∙ ENGLEWOOD, NJ. The state commissioner of education ordered Englewood's Lincoln School to adopt a plan for ending de facto segregation before September, thereby signaling an end to a nine-year-old dispute. In 1954 the city school board redrew school boundaries in a way that concentrated Negro...
The Administration argues that segregation in hotels, motels, theaters and the like may be a decided hindrance to interstate travel and to the free movement of goods in interstate commerce. Thus, the Kennedy bill provides that public establishments with any sort of "substantial" interest in interstate commerce should be governed...
BOSTON. More than 8,000 high school students, both Negro and white, skipped classes after Negro leaders urged a student "stay out for freedom" protest against de facto segregation in Boston schools. Some 1,000 students turned up at churches and civic centers for one-day sessions in Negro history...
ST. LOUIS. About 500 demonstrators paraded in front of board of education headquarters singing hymns and chanting prayers in a peaceful, two-hour protest against de facto segregation in St. Louis' heavily Negro neighborhoods.
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (dubbed "SNICK") was formed in 1960 at a Raleigh meeting of Southern Negro college students. That meeting was called by none other than Martin Luther King-but King was unwilling to move fast enough to satisfy the youngsters. Brash, reckless and disorganized, SNICK is headed...