Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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∙California's state board of education urges schools to combat de facto segregation "with the full thrust of our legal authority and moral leadership." Resisting this stand, San Francisco's School Superintendent Harold Spears announced last June that he could see "no educationally sound program to eliminate...
These spurious threats could remain unquestioned only because so few Negroes here can even imagine a time when segregation will end. In this sense Chestertown Negroes are unprepared for integration. They are small town Americans who have never received the local benefits which city people usually think of as a...
Conditioned by 100 years of segregation and their prior history of slavery, Negroes here have naturally adapted themselves to the situation by creating their own world. It is a world as time-consuming as that of the white man, containing its own sets of peaks and troughs and daily routines...
Byrd has been at odds with every subsequent President. He considered Harry Truman just another big spender. Irritated by Byrd's opposition, Truman made his famed offhand remark: There were, he told a White House visitor, "too many Byrds in Congress." Predictably, Byrd liked Ike-but the pair came...
As he spoke, whites and Negroes were at least sitting down in the same room in Albany, Ga., but it was in a federal courtroom, not at a bargaining table. The city fathers, having lost one order restraining mass Negro protests over segregation (TIME, Aug. 3), were trying to revive...