Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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At that point, Florida Democrat George Smathers got into the act, shouting at Pastore: "Not one word does the Senator from Rhode Island know what he is talking about! She could go into any drugstore and get a drink of water." Moreover, Smathers continued, there is discrimination in the North...
Because of failure to reapportion Alabama's districts, candidates for all eight of the state's House seats ran at large. In last week's Democratic pri mary, Elliott, 51, stood ninth and, after seven House terms, was turned out of office. Just to underline their point...
> "Among whites, persons of European ancestry generally showed the greatest desire for residential segregation. About 8% would dislike living near Italians or Jews. More than one-fifth would not like to live near Japanese. Over 75% would dislike living next to Negroes. The Jewish population itself appears to have a...
In 1950, Director-Counsel Marshall pierced "separate but equal" segregation when the Supreme Court ordered Heman Sweatt admitted as the first Negro at the University of Texas Law School and told the University of Oklahoma to stop isolating Negro Graduate Student George McLaurin. Sweatt and McLaurin opened the way for...
Traditionally opposed to racial segregation in both theory and practice, the American Baptist delegates approved their church's strongest stand yet on civil rights. Their resolution advocated withholding church loans to segregated Baptist congregations, and putting fair-employment-practice clauses in all contracts between churches and builders. But the...