Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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It may be a measure of the frustration in the Boston civil rights movement that Negro parents have finally decided to bypass the conventional forms of protest and do the only thing that can get their children into decent schools. For the last two years de facto segregation has been...
Mrs. Louise Day Hicks, the School Committee Chairman, who is noted for her refusal to admit the existence of de facto segregation, answered the parents group. She told them that the School Committee would not rehash the busing question, but promised that there would be no double sessions.
I had driven from Augusta with Bob Cohn, the city editor of the Augusta paper for which I was working, to cover a Southern Christian Leadership Conference march protesting the county's stolid brand of segregation.
Crediting the sudden reversal by the Office of Education to a phone call by Mayor Richard J. Daly, a powerful figure in the Democratic Party, to President Johnson, Chicago civil rights leaders decried the release of the $30 million as "a shameless display of power." The Coordinating Council of Community...
Farmer praises President Johnson's federal action on behalf of the Negro. He terms Johnson "the most forth-right President we've ever hand on civil rights, including Kennedy." But on the local level, especially in the North, Farmer finds progress in the rights fight disturbingly intangible: "In the South...