Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rearguard Justice. Unhappily, some of those promising district judges have turned out to be so devoted to segregation that they may be the greatest obstacle to equal rights in the South today.
Now entrenched for life on Southern benches are such men as Louisiana's Judge E. Gordon West, who has upheld the Supreme Court's 1954 school ruling while calling it "one of the truly regrettable decisions of all time," and Georgia's Judge J. Robert Elliott, who...
It was a strange contempt proceeding that threatened Negro voting throughout Mississippi, but it should have been no surprise. Once on the bench in a state where only 5% of adult Negroes are registered to vote, Judge Cox, 63, has consistently refused to find any pattern of discrimination. Moreover, he...
Supreme Court justice from 1945 to 1958; of Parkinson's disease; in Washington. A nonswearing, one-martini Unitarian, Burton was the middle-roading conciliator between the hotly divided Frankfurter and Black camps; he believed in interpreting, not making, the law, though he became an ardent civil rights advocate, winning...
Ellison, no less than Baldwin, indicts slavery and segregation for the lasting wounds that they have inflicted on the Negro. But he does not believe that the Negro's life in the U.S. has been a complete horror story. In spite of lynchings, beatings and everyday insults, the "harsh...