Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During a dissertation on segregation, Georgia's Democratic Senator Richard Russell explained to the Senate that feelings of inferiority were just a figment "in the minds of Negroes who object to associating with members of their own race."
The Supreme Court is composed of nine lawyers, and it is the nature of lawyers to disagree with one another. But as last week's pair of 5-4 decisions involving domestic Communists indicated, the present nine lawyers are in unusually deep-seated disagreement (except in segregation cases, on...
The first targets were European buses in the capital city of Salisbury. Though some of the white passengers complained and pointedly averted their eyes from the presence of the blacks, the bus company quickly capitulated, announced it would carry anyone with fare. Largely through their own haste and poor planning...
After 23 years, one of the longest terms ever run up by a metropolitan U.S. mayor, Atlanta's William B. Hartsfield, 71, announced his impending retirement. Leaving behind a smoothly-operating, patronage-free bureaucracy, Democrat Hartsfield will probably be longest remembered for his notable progress in the field of...
Our purpose was not to demonstrate that segregation still exists in the South, but rather to end that segregation which we all know exists in interstate travel. We shall go on-calmly and with dignity, with understanding in our hearts, but also with firmness. We cannot wait for segregation to...