Word: segregationism
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To most white Mississippians, integration has always been something to be resisted, not accepted. Rallying behind the cry of "Segregation forever," citizens of the state have resorted to violence, intimidation and a Byzantine series of legal maneuvers as they sought to avoid compliance with the U.S. Supreme Court's...
Segregation Academies. In some districts, this will undoubtedly be the case. Philadelphia, near where three civil rights workers were murdered in 1964, is expected to desegregate without incident. So is Yazoo City, a west central Mississippi community of 12,100. Instead of waiting vainly for last-minute deliverance, local leaders...
Still, many Mississippians hope to avoid what they cannot delay. In the pattern of Virginia, Louisiana and other Southern states where many more than 200 private schools have been established in order to exclude blacks, more than 30 new private schools have been set up in Mississippi since September. They...
Andrew Brimmer, a governor of the Federal Reserve System and a former Assistant Secretary of Commerce, offered his view in a paper presented to the American Economic Association. He argued that black-owned businesses tend to be small, precariously financed beauty parlors, food stores, and other personal-service or retail...
Racial discrimination persists in death as well as life. Many private cemeteries in both the North and South make contracts with their customers that contain racial restrictions specifying who shall be buried where. Last week, however, a U.S. district court in Alabama toppled such monuments to segregation when it ordered...