Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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No Right to Kill. Summing up for the prosecution was Alabama's Assistant Attorney General Joseph Breck Gantt. "I don't want to talk about the Communist Party," he said, "or the Teamsters Union, or the N.A.A.C.P. or segregation or integration or whites or niggers or marches or...
Greenberg asserted that Title VI authorities should not approve so-called "freedom of choice" plans, under which school officials abolish formal school zones and tell Negroes that they can attend any school they wish. "In these cases," he said, "community pressure and the momentum of segregation will keep things entirely...
He also complained that HEW ignores the clear mandate of Brown vs. Board of Education, the famous 1954 decision outlawing segregation in the schools, when it allows systems to desegregate only four grades at a time without having to offer any reason for delay.
• PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS. Compliance with the new public-accommodations law, which took effect last summer, has been good, on the whole. Negroes are received at restaurants and hotels even in such notorious centers of segregation as McComb, Miss., Birmingham, Ala., and Albany, Ga. There have been some violent cases of...
•SCHOOL INTEGRATION. Eleven years after the Supreme Court's desegregation ruling, school integration throughout most of the South has barely begun. In five states the overall integration rate (the percentage of each state's Negro pupils in schools with whites) is less than 1%; Texas leads the...