Word: segregationism
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What he meant, he explained in Anaheim, was that he would not use federal funds specifically to promote integration. Under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Government money would still be denied systems that persisted in practicing segregation.
There are important differences between the gospel according to Goldwater and that preached by Wallace. Goldwater was, and is, an ideological conservative with rather classic ideas about limiting the activities of Government. While opposing certain civil rights laws, Goldwater never opposed racial integration. He admired conservative intellectuals like William F...
If his administration was progressive, his stand on civil rights was positively liberal in a Border State that still retains many vestiges of segregation. At his urging, a 306-year-old antimiscegenation law was repealed, the state public-accommodations law was broadened, and the first state open-housing law south...
To those who in the dining hall, see "Black Tables" and White Tables," I can only reply that if they look a little more carefully, they will see "Black with White Polkadot Table"s and "White with Black Polkadot Tables," Self-imposed "segregation" is to some degree a part of...
Black Power, as Young envisages it, is the power of Negroes to choose: to live in harmony with whites, to live among themselves amid decent surroundings-even to exclude whites if they wish. But Young ruled out black apartheid. "We do not intend to do the racists' job for...