Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The Jackson Clarion-Ledger (by its own admission "Mississippi's Leading Newspaper") gave the governor full and sympathetic coverage. Its, story said "Barnett threw would-be hecklers off guard by almost entirely ignoring the segregation issue. An audience that came to hiss and boo and heckle became strangely attentive to...
As for direct federal aid to public schools-an idea torpedoed last year in a debate over religion, segregation and "federal control"-the Administration proposes to offer much less: $1.5 billion over four years to help states build classrooms, raise teachers' salaries and tackle key problems, such as school...
The professors tried valiantly to discuss some of the Governor's address. They pointed out, for example, that Mississippi's industrialization (so eloquently depicted by Mr. Barnett) would eventually force the state to abandon its segregation views and accept the Constitution. But these lucid arguments did not completely expose the...
Barnett said he hoped he could make it clear that segregation is not the same thing as racial hatred. "Why, we work right along side the Nergo in our factories; we do everything we can for him," the Governor explained. "We spend 70 per cent of our state funds for...
Kenneth Guscott, president of the Boston chapter of the NAACP, declared Saturday that "the most effective way to deal with the differences we have with Gov. Barnett on the issues of segregation and discrimination is to present Gov. Barnett with a large, integrated audience who will listen with courtesy to...