Word: segregationism
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Ribicoff's Senate speech was more emotional than practical. "I felt in my heart that this was something I just had to say," he explains. He sent an advance copy to Mississippi Senator John Stennis, who promptly requested that Ribicoff be given the floor during a debate on renewal...
The High School Workshop received the conference's endorsement for the High School Bill of Rights, which demands constitutional liberties for all secondary school students. Another proposal attacking the "tracking system" for causing economic segregation, was rejected.
The judge, however, was again obliged to repudiate a 1948 pro-segregation speech. Senators also questioned Carswell about being one of the incorporators of a Tallahassee golf club in 1956. Then a U.S. Attorney, he had invested $100 to help finance the conversion of a public golf course into a...
Carswell had made the speech in 1948 during his unsuccessful campaign for a seat in the Georgia legislature. "I believe that segregation of the races is proper," Carswell, who was then 28, told an American Legion gathering, "and the only practical and correct way of life in our states. I...
No White Women. Wyatt professes that he acted not only for profit but to bring new industry to St. Clair. He also expresses growing admiration for the Muslims. "The more I find out about the Muslims, the better I like 'em," he says. "They don't believe in...