Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard and Radcliffe students joined others from area colleges and members of CORE Saturday in picketing to protest segregation in southern Howard Johnson restaurants.
The Tenth Amendment reserves to the states only powers that the Constitution does not prohibit; the 14th Amendment prohibits any state from depriving any person of "life, liberty or property without due process of law," and from denying any person "the equal protection of the laws." In 1954 the Supreme...
If they work on U.S. bases in the South, Negro civilians and servicemen must send their children to the generally inferior Negro schools. Yet they pay federal taxes to support such segregation: the Government gives some $75 million a year to help schools in the South's "impacted" areas...
Emphatically no. said the Justice Department last week in a significant federal suit involving the Government for the first time as original plaintiff in a school desegregation case. The target: Virginia's Prince George County,* site of Fort Lee, which houses the Army Quartermaster School. While getting hefty impact...
In his concluding statement Hughes called on the President to bar federal aid to any school which practices discrimination, and demanded that the Senate reject the appointments of federal judges who are segregationists. Referring to Boston's racial problems, he cited the ending of de facto segregation in the suburbs...