Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In refusing to allow James Meredith into the university, Barnett is pitting his state's powers against the 1954 Supreme Court decision outlawing segregation in public education. He argues that the decision, based on the 14th Amendment, exceeds the powers of the national government; and so, he says, he has...
I would heartily concur with the objections raised by Messrs. Butler, Roberts, and Rothstein to the University's position on the state's Fair Employment Practices Act. I spent the summer in the South, working principally for voter registration, but also in other areas of discrimination, then returned to work...
He fired the paper's hard-hitting editor, Coleman A. Harwell, and brought in Ed ward D. Ball, the Associated Press's Nash ville bureau chief. Silliman Jr. absented himself frequently on extended tours. Ball focused on cutting costs. The paper turned pale and comatose. The Tennessean'...
∙In Chicago, where schools are 40% Negro. Federal Judge Julius J. Hoffman recently dismissed a similar suit on technical grounds, but added: "Chicago cannot deny the existence of de facto segregation or excuse it on the pretext of a benign indifference." Chicago's $48,500-a-year (tops...
Little more satisfactory are the major alternatives. One of these is redrawing school lines to include both whites and Negroes. Another is the "Princeton (N.J.) Plan" of using one school for all children of perhaps three grades, using a second school for three other grades, and so on. This works...