Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In the entire South last spring-six years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled school segregation unconstitutional-a grand total of 4.200 Negro children attended classes with whites. The vast ma jority of that number-some 3,300-were in 125 west Texas districts. There were 22 in one Miami...
September with a policy of segregation as usual.
Rafer Johnson was born to Elma and Lewis Johnson in a town named Hillsboro, south of Dallas. He was just 18 months old when his family moved to an all-Negro district of Dallas. There Rafer spent his early years in a bitter little world of segregation, discrimination and poverty...
The new president of Washington. D.C.'s Howard University is a man with a grand dream and a curious problem. He is Attorney James Madison Nabrit Jr.. 59. dean of Howard's Law School and a major figure in the U.S. Negro's legal battle against...
In a way, Nabrit has only himself to credit. One of seven children of an Atlanta preacher, he earned his law degree at Northwestern, then joined the Howard law faculty as a fledgling constitutional lawyer in 1936 and jumped into the battle for civil rights. Between teaching and setting up...