Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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American Dilemma-the famous study of U.S. Negroes that was cited by the Supreme Court in its 1954 school segregation decision-Rose had a tough legal precedent to contend with. Last year, in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, the Supreme Court ruled that false criticism of a public official...
"I am not suggesting that we lightly cast aside our cherished Southern traditions," Valentine likes to say. "I am suggesting that we throw them aside with great vigor wherever they violate the spirit of the Bible." His objections to segregation are firmly religious. "We need to abolish racial discrimination in...
> 1958: Shuttlesworth lost a challenge to Alabama's pupil-placement law when the Supreme Court declared the law constitutional, even though it seemed designed to perpetuate segregation.
The Grail which motivates this glowing silkworm's Quest from coast to coast appears to be some mystic sense of Nowness, which, once possessed, will be the journalistic scoop of an epoch. Mainland commitment is no good, because "the moment you become a partisan of any cause you commit yourself...
Reverse Backlash. In Nashville one parishioner canceled a $500 pledge to Calvary Methodist Church after the pastor, the Rev. Sam R. Dodson Jr., led a protest march of ministers against segregation; another layman at once raised his pledge by $500. In Alabama, when one Presbyterian church cut off the minister...