Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Farmer implicated Harvard in a press conference last week at the University of Chicago, where CORE has been staging a two-week marathon demonstration to protect segregation in off-campus apartment houses. The University of Chicago had purchased the apartments as part of an urban renewal program to upgrade the...
Into Alabama's political ring once again went the wool hat of James E. ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom, 53, a favorite to win the Democratic gubernatorial primary-and with it an unprecedented third term in a state where the Governor cannot succeed himself. After idling away his latest interregnum...
Walter Williams, head of the Southern Student Freedom Fund, has sent to campus leaders throughout the country asking them to initiate fund drives in support of the voter registration schools run by the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee SNCC) in Mississippi. The money will also be used to help Southern...
Citing "the tremendous success" of campaigns at Harvard and Yale in the Fall, Williams suggested the sale of "Freedom Buttons" as a good way for students to show support for "the struggle that is going on all over the South to end discrimination and segregation."
The National Student Association, sponsor of the Freedom Fund, is acting under a resolution adopted at last summer's national congress directing the Association to lend full support to SNCC activities. Williams, a former student body president at Jackson State College, was thrown out of school early this year for...