Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During the campaign, Faubus, for the most part, avoided talking on segregation, astutely carved out for himself the image of a moderate. The results, he said, proved "that the people do not wish to wander in the thickets of extremism to either the right or the left."
Until Gillis came through last week, there had been a possibility that Russell might be pressured into giving up his Senator's seat and seniority by running for Governor in 1964 in order to maintain the Long dynasty back home. Russell has been in the Senate for almost 14...
Although few Negroes in this town are well off, it would be wrong to formulate a direct equation between segregation and poverty. Many colored people here own nice suburban houses, and almost everyone has a car and a television set. For the past generation, at least, concentrated on doing as...
The real problem for NAACP leaders, however, is that segregation has left them totally unfamiliar with the white world, and its ways of doing business. And since the white community holds all political and economic power here, negotiations must be carried out on its terms.
Few town leaders recognize NAACP members as the true spokesmen of the Negro community. Instead they refer to a wealthier class of local Negroes; men who, by slightly superior education, have long been leaders in their isolated world. These people, of course, have as much to lose by integration as...