Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Almost half the public school children of Chicago - 225,000 of them -played hooky for a day last week, and 8,000 grownups circled city hall, waving signs and singing. It was the biggest demonstration ever held in the U.S. against de facto school segregation, which is measured in Chicago...
Thomas F. Pettigrew, lecturer on Social Psychology, yesterday called the Chairman of the Boston School Committee "Boston's own Bull Connor." He charged the Committee's chairman, Mrs. Louise D. Hicks, with evading and suppressing Negro protests against alleged de facto segregation in Roxbury.
United States churches are rife with segregation, a young Negro clergyman charged yesterday. The Rev. James P. Breeden warned that racial separation in the structure of the church has intensified racial disunity in the country.
Emasculated by segregation itself, the church has been unable to take an effective stand against segregation in society, Breeden declared. He said the Southern response to the 1954 Supreme Court decision exemplifies the "moral weakness" in the position of the churches. While the highest levels of the church advised Christians...
The subcommittee's bill, if it could be passed, would be far preferable to the administration's. For example, Title Three of the stronger measure, which allows the Attorney General to file suit against any form of discrimination, would be invaluable in ending segregation quickly and in challenging the questionable...