Word: segregationism
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MORE than 100 years after Appomattox, Mississippians found General Robert E. Lee's words newly poignant and appropriate. For over a decade they had used every delaying tactic they knew in their battle to maintain their tradition of educational apartheid. Then, last October, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered an...
Clue to the Future. For those reasons, the rest of the U.S. followed the events in Mississippi closely. Parents in the more than 500 Southern school districts scheduled to desegregate by next fall studied their Mississippi counterparts for a clue to their own future behavior. Parents and officials in Northern...
New Kind of Segregation. In districts where blacks are in the majority, however, opening day brought only a new kind of segregation as whites abandoned the public schools to the black invasion. In Natchez, where Baptist churches are pooling their resources to form private schools, a third of the city...
That is more than a great many Mississippi whites are going to get. The state has no compulsory-attendance law, and rather than let their children sit next to blacks, many poor parents plan to keep them out of school entirely. Thousands of others are planning to send their children...
Well aware of the buying power of their dollars, more than 400 blacks met with Charles Evers, mayor of Fayette. They plan a selective buying campaign aimed at the pocketbooks of white merchants and businessmen who donate either money or equipment to the segregation academies. "We're not going...