Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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A companion piece by the Rev. Thomas McLeod, a white minister in suburban Lexington, states firmly that "almost anyone in the Greater Boston community who protests that there is no discrimination in his locality is either unenlightened, uninformed, or uninterested." This implicit condemnation of the Boston School Committee, which has...
Militant, organized Negroes argue that the only solution is to import white students to Negro schools on the bitter theory that this will guarantee adequate teaching. Superintendent Gross has ruled that out. He backs every integration step "short of the compulsory interchange of Negro and white students between distant communities...
It is too early to measure Gross's success, but he has certainly set a new tone in New York City. He started off facing a double crisis that threatened to collapse the school system on opening day in September: civil righters were set to boycott schools in protest...
What role should the church play in the bitter fight for Negro equality in schools? In Atlanta last week, the question was very much in the public eye as pickets bearing anti-segregation placards marched outside the fashionable, privately run Lovett School. It was a kind of civil rights protest...
This was connection enough for Lovett's headmaster, the Rev. James McDowell. He promptly resigned, saying, "The church has spoken on the matter of segregation, and it is my duty, so long as I am a priest, to adhere to its teachings." At the same time, the Rt. Rev...