Word: segregationism
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A major reason for the effectiveness of the civil rights legislation is simply the threat it poses. To protest male-female segregation in New York Times classified ads, for example, NOW staged an ad-lib protest in 1967. The Times desegregated its ads.
Cheered Warmly. The President's low-key approach was to stress cooperation over coercion. His audience consisted of the members of state advisory committees on education from seven Southern states. He emphasized that the race-relations and school-segregation question "is not a sectional problem-it is a national...
Faubus, who before the advent of George Wallace and Sen. Strom Thurmond was the premier symbol of Southern racial segregation, retired in 1966 to manage Dogpatch, U. S. A., and to divorce his wife for a woman 30 years his junior.
The force was founded in 1938 exclusively to patrol highways. But when the civil rights movement focused on Mississippi in 1964, the legislature gave patrolmen full power to enforce "all the laws of the state," including those supporting segregation. In 1965, the patrol handled the transfer of 250 civil rights...
While the subculture of youth has been examined, psychoanalyzed, photographed, deplored and envied, few have wanted even to admit the existence of a subculture of the aged, with its implications of segregation and alienation. Strangely enough, the aged have a lot in common with youth: they are largely unemployed, introspective...