Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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> Alabama's George Wallace was elected Governor in 1962 standing four-square on a platform against a state sales-tax increase. After he was elected, the legislature voted in favor of a tax hike, and House Speaker Albert Brewer visited the Governor to commiserate "because you'll have to veto...
> Louisiana's State Representative Risley Claiborne ("Pappy") Triche was a legislative floor leader in the fight against school desegregation in the 1960s. But in 1972, speaking in favor of two bills aimed at protecting racial minorities from job discrimination, he acknowledged that some people might think, " 'Listen to that segregationist...
In an attempt to forestall federal efforts to integrate the South, whites used to argue that they "understood" blacks better than Northerners did. That rationalization was partly true because the fate of blacks and whites has been entwined since the start of slavery. Even when they were most at odds...
"Like most black Americans, my roots are in the South. " So writes TIME Atlanta Correspondent Jack White, 30, who reported on many of the stories in this issue before taking nine months'leave for a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard. Here is White's personal account of being brought...
Rather than seriously consider black requests, the white government had increased racial polarization with segregation methods similar to those of South Africa. The white government believes that stubborness is the best policy and the white citizens agree.