Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Martin Luther King was first quoted in TIME in 1956 (March 5), when he was leading the boycott ("This is a struggle between justice and injustice") that eventually ended bus segregation in Montgomery, Ala. This is his third appearance on the cover-the first having been in 1957 (Feb. 18...
Coed Sleep-Out. On the normally casual campus of the University of Kansas in Lawrence, 113 students were arrested last week when they refused to leave a hallway outside Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe's office, protesting segregation in K.U. fraternities and sororities. At the University of Washington in Seattle...
Too Late for Segregation. Whether moved by courage or realism, some papers have made surprising changes. Alabama's biggest daily, the Birmingham News, which used to make a practice of parroting the segregationist line, has covered the trouble in Selma fully and fairly and has run some thoughtful analyses...
The New Orleans States-Item, which was criticized along with the Times-Picayune for doing little to calm the city during the 1960 school integration crisis, sent a staff reporter to cover last summer's murder of three civil rights workers in Mississippi, and urged "reasonable Mississippians to raise...
He claimed that the 1964 Civil Rights Act is "obviously designed to exempt the North" from its provisions. At least three titles of the bill specify that nothing in the title is to be construed as directed against de facto segregation, he noted.