Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps because of the site, the Sunday school killings in Birmingham brought forth in churches throughout the U.S. last week a great outpouring of wrath, sympathy-and hard-cash collections to help rebuild the bombed Baptist church. The reaction demonstrated what is best about religion's responsibilities toward mending...
The governor sidestepped the controversial question of whether do facto segregation exists in Boston schools. "I won't use the term myself, because it implies that someone is actively segregating someone else," he said. "I agree that there is a problem, but I think it exists not because of anything...
Mr. Melvin H. King, candidate for the Boston School Committee, will discuss de facte segregation in the Boston schools tonight at a meeting of the Young Democrats Club of Harvard and Radcliffe.
Whether a political message of national significance can be drawn from the Boston School Committee primary is a difficult question. Boston is not the only city in which de facto segregation is an explosive social and political question: the same situation exists in New York, Chicago, Detroit, and other cities...
The Boston primary clearly accomplished one thing: it probed voter sentiment in an area--segregation--which is rarely probed in the North. The results of that probe cannot be interpreted otherwise than that Northern whites are, at least for the moment, opposed to the changing of a traditional pattern of...