Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Almost no one in Savannah seriously challenged the city's pattern of racial segregation until the sit-in demonstrations of 1959, Eisenman declared. Then racial tension rose to the point of "un-civil war." Demonstrators were arrested, street riots took place, and gun stores sold their entire stocks, he said...
At Chicago's Playboy Club, where businessmen from all parts of the U.S., including the Deep South, wallow in their shoulder-padded expense accounts, a neatly dressed young comedian talks about the race problem. "Segregation is not all bad," he says. "Have you ever heard of a wreck where...
Pressman said that the Boston demonstration was only one of at least 12 being staged in major cities across the country. The Student Non-Violent Co-ordinating Committee in Atlanta, Ga., had asked the Boston EPIC group, which last year led a boycott against the Woolworth chain, to join in...
Frank J. Bardacke '63, who collected signatures an on anti-segregation petition in front of the box office, reported that "children were much more receptive than adults, and often felt guilty about attending." Bardacke was one of 40 students from Harvard and Radcliffe participating in the picketing.
The new demonstrations are an attempt by student integration leaders to expand their activities, which have heretofore been limited to lunch counter skit-ins. Students at the University of Texas began protesting local segregation at movie theatres early in December, and the movement has spread to campuses all over the...