Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Profession & Practice. That brief encounter between a Catholic woman and her archbishop expressed a profound turn of events in the South: the Catholic Church is finally resolving the contradiction between its profession and its practice in racial segregation. It is unmistakable church doctrine that segregation, in schools and churches, is...
Rummel applauded the 1954 Supreme Court decision that outlawed segregation in public schools, and began to nudge his reluctant flock toward accepting segregation as "morally wrong and sinful." He eliminated "whites only" pews in New Orleans' churches in 1953, and two years later shut down a church whose white...
According to Marshall, many factors such as neighborhood segregation, unequal school facilities, high incidence of high school dropouts, a lack of sufficient vocational training, high unemployment, and a past history of discrimination work against equal job opportunity for Northern Negroes.
Marshall's civil rights division of the Justice Department employs 40 lawyers, most of whom work on segregation cases in the South.
"God demands segregation," says New Orleans' Mrs. B. J. Gaillot Jr., president of segregationist Save Our Nation Inc. She is a Roman Catholic, and when Archbishop Joseph Francis Rummel, 85, ordered full desegregation of New Orleans parochial schools for next fall, Mrs. Gaillot responded with picketing and loud protest...