Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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All over the South. Negro students were on the march last week in a widespread, nonviolent protest the likes of which the U.S. had never seen. In the eleven weeks since four young Negro college students staged the first sitdown demonstration against segregation at the lunch counter of a Woolworth...
¶ "Segregation as we know it in Arkansas is immoral."
¶ The habit of racial segregation is a vice and can be a grave sin "when the act of racial prejudice committed is a serious infraction of the law of justice or charity."
¶ Catholics may not be members of organizations "whose purpose is to continue segregation as we know it ... because by so doing, they are promoting a system which is unjust and uncharitable."
In the U.S. South, it is "segregation." In South Africa it is apartheid. By either name, it means racial trouble. What does the Southern press have to say of recent conflict in South Africa? And what does the South African press say of Negro sit-ins in the U.S. South...