Word: segregationism
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He continued his organizing efforts into the sixties: in 1948, he sponsored a movement for mass refusals of induction into the Army by blacks - a move that was averted when President Truman signed an Executive Order banning segregation in the Armed Forces. He served as director of the 1963 March...
AS IN THE Haynesworth case, the FBI and the Justice Department had done a lousy job investigating Carswell. It was clear that his abilities as a judge were below average, that his balking on granting habeas-corpus petitions was a danger signal, and that his rudeness to civil rights workers...
The legal framework that propped up, then demolished dual schools is rote to Southerners: Plessy, Brown, Alexander, and last month's busing decision Swann. Georgia was the first Southern state blanketed with a statewide court order to dismantle its separate school systems. Elaborate evasions were constructed at each step and...
The commissioners summed up the shift: "It may mark the beginning of the Federal Government's withdrawal from active participation in the effort to eliminate residential segregation." Although the Civil Rights Commission gave guarded approval to some Administration actions in recent months, the criticism of HUD made it clear...
NEVERTHELESS, the Montgomery movement was at best an accidental and limited political success. As Williams says, "The irony of the Montgomery situation was that the black people there did not ask for much." They planned a one-day protest, and asked that the segregation ordinances governing public transportation be made...