Word: segregationism
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ONE GETS THE SENSE, on a first impression, that some great power has asked all Jews to step over to one side of the hall, and all Arabs to the other. This great overwhelming power, one soon realizes, is a fatal combination of fear and suspicion. Fear of the other...
The sight of young black children entering a previously all-white Little Rock, Ark., school as Army troops stood guard caused millions of Americans to instinctively understand the rightness and the promise of integration. "Bull" Connor's Birmingham cops and dogs signaled the distance still to travel and helped spur...
"Choice is not a solution and has very little to do with education," Peterkin said, pointing to problems of unequal funding, transportation and racial segregation associated with such plans.
The allegation that the novelist and the racist were one and the same was swiftly disputed by the author's executor and Asa Earl Carter's brother Doug. The latter did acknowledge that Asa wrote speeches for Alabama's George Wallace, including the infamous lines "Segregation now. Segregation tomorrow. Segregation...
But Putnam told his audience that the root of their problems was not really the activists, nor even the Supreme Court's ruling against segregation. The movement for integration, he said, had begun in the universities, where left-wing professors had launched "a ceaseless barrage of false science, false sentimentality...