Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Segregation in the North is much more "intricate and irrational," Wakefield said. Commenting on the proposed boycott of Christmas shopping, he said that it would be bad "if the integration movement were to become more segregated."
Churches have, of course, been condemning segregation for decades. But clergymen acknowledge that more often than not these declarations were given lip service approval by local churches, and then forgotten. "Love thy neighbor" was the parish rule-if the neighbor happened to be white.
Lutherans are generally less engaged, and in the rearguard of the civil rights battle comes the big Southern Baptist Convention, many of whose 10.2 million members believe that segregation derives from the law of God. "If the
But many signs show that preaching alone is disappointingly ineffective. Chief among them is the segregation that still thrives within the church de spite a striking increase in sermons on integration since the January conference in Chicago. Most Southern Protestant churches are rigidly segregated, and dozens of Southern Baptist and...
Back in 1855, Boston became the first major U.S. city to outlaw school segregation. Today, about 30 of its 190 schools are de facto segregated-85% or more Negro. Although Negroes complain loudly of inequities, the school committee is uninterested-and it hard ly has to care. In last week...