Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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It was the racial issue that first brought Mrs. Hicks to prominence. Since being elected to the school committee six years ago, she has vigorously fought all attempts to break down Boston's de facto school segregation. She opposes the bussing of pupils out of their neighborhoods on the...
Young's proposal, put forward four years ago, was for a "Domestic Marshall Plan" that would cost $145 billion over ten years. He noted that the Negro suffered a "discrimination gap" caused by "more than three centuries of abuse, humiliation, segregation and bias." Because he is consequently incapable of...
The Jackson Citizens' Council, a white supremacy group in Mississippi, recently asked the major candidates in the Democratic gubernatorial campaign to explain "why our ideals of states' rights and racial segregation" were not being "featured in this campaign as in the past." A reasonable explanation might be that 195,000...
Realistic Negroes have no hope for anything less than staunch segregationist Democrats in all the State's top posts. Only in the 12 counties where Negroes hold a substantial edge in voter regiistration do they have a chance to elect their own candidates or sympathetic whites. In the other elections...
As many sociologists see it, the Negro (along with most Puerto Ricans, Mexican-Americans and Appalachian whites) is part of a "subculture of poverty," and his riots are mainly economic in origin. But a U.C.L.A. study of the 1965 Watts riots found that it was not just the poorest Negroes...