Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Girard (actually a school rather than a college) bars Negroes because of the seemingly unbreakable will of Founder Stephen Girard. When he died in 1831, reputedly the nation's richest man, Shipping Tycoon Girard added a segregation clause to his $6,000,000 bequest on the then plausible theory...
Thomas F. Pettigrew, assistant professor of Social Psychology, a White House conference Tuesday that segregated becoming more entrenched in both the North and the South. In a paper prepared for President Johnson's Conference on Pettigrew charged that "many Southern cities are openly striving to emulate the Northern de facto...
increasingly segregated housing patterns have combined with policy of neighborhood schools to foster segregated education on centers throughout the country, Pettigrew declared. "As segregation of schools slow- de facto segregation by increasing," he said.
∙ON JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS. Two vacancies on the nine-judge Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals-a key court in civil rights cases because it includes Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas-will be filled "very shortly" by an old Johnson friend, Texan Homer Thornberry, and by a former Mississippi...
Pending a new revelation, possible at any time, Mormons are committed to a certain degree of built-in segregation: Negroes cannot be admitted to the church's priesthood. For this reason, Mormon missionaries have never tried very hard to make converts in black Africa. Yet Mormons also believe that...