Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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A second reason for at least guarded optimism about the Southern vote is that Republican congressmen were elected in the most powerful enclaves of segregation, Mississippi and Alabama. Local Democrats will now be forced to offer alternatives to these Goldwater men, and if such candidates need Negro votes, they will...
In controversial "explanatory opinions" he forcefully supported the U.S. Supreme Court's school prayer decision, and he spoke out in a personally difficult situation against last year's boycott of the Boston schools due to de facto segregation. While adopting the politically safe course of not passing judgment on the...
As McCormack has become more involved with the politics of the House and with national problems he has paid little attention to those of his constituents. He has not kept them informed of activities in the House. His unfamiliarity with poor health conditions, unemployment and de facto segregation in his...
A trial court ruled against the board, but the state's highest court found that the school zoning plan was fair, reasonable, and carefully aimed at avoiding segregation rather than enforcing it. Given such circumstances, ruled the court, the board is constitutionally permitted to zone new schools on the...
Turning to a specific discussion of segregation in housing, Young said that "whites must work just as hard to make neighborhoods inclusive as they did to make them exclusive. Integration means opportunity for whites as well as Negroes. It gives whites the chance to get rid of the drab sameness...