Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In response to a call from student integration leaders in the South, over 300 students, veterans, and labor unionists will demonstrate in Boston Sunday against the segregation practices of southern branches of the ABC-Paramount theatre-chain.
¶ In Georgia, the legislature tossed out state laws compelling segregation. New laws permit integrated public schools (probable city pattern) or state-aided, segregated private schools (possible rural pattern). Only Alabama, Mississippi and South Carolina remain pledged to segregation at all costs.
¶ In the New York City suburb of New Rochelle, the board of education got a jolt from Federal Judge Irving R. Kaufman, who called it "deliberately" segregationist. He charged that the board gerrymandered district lines to keep New Rochelle's Lincoln School virtually all-Negro. Judge Kaufman ruled...
Failure of Faith. Dr. Fisher has been one of the least pompous of prelates-after a minor operation in 1939, he played Pack Up Your Troubles and Smoke Gets in Your Eyes on a barrel organ in Chester Market Square to raise funds for the hospital in which he had...
Vandiver's way out is a proposed state constitutional amendment, guaranteeing "freedom of association" to replace the present clause requiring segregation. With other new laws, the effect would be to cancel compulsory school attendance, open the way to state grants for segregated private schools. Public schools would be integrated...