Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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¶ Senator Estes Kefauver, long a banner-waving Democratic liberal, but running for re-election this year in segregation-prone Tennessee, suddenly chose to attack the vital voting-rights heart of the bill with a crippling amendment. In the Judiciary Committee, Kefauver proposed an amendment that would change a would...
Yet, in the wake of the first bloody rioting, he told an anxious white audience: "The Bantu are orderly and loyal to the government. They understand that we are thinking of their interests." In eight years as Minister of Native Affairs in the regimes of Daniel Malan and Johannes Strijdom...
The young Negro's rebellion against segregation continued to spread last week, touching off a great swell of mass arrests in the South. Items:
In 1959, two years after federal troops were sent into Little Rock to quell rioters, another racist mob marched down Little Rock's 14th Street bent on creating new troubles for tempest-tossed school authorities and the Negro children who were again trying to enter Central High School. This...
¶ In Orangeburg, S.C., 600 students from two Negro colleges paraded in the streets with placards that proclaimed "We Want Liberty" and "Segregation Is Dead." Arrested after a scuffle were a white man and a Negro girl.