Word: segregationism
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With 150 out of 275 precincts reporting, Mrs. Hicks, who has consistently denied that de facto segregation exists in Boston public schools, had over 37,000 votes in the school-committee race. Thomas S. Eisenstadt trailed with 16,000 votes, followed by Joseph Lee (15,000), William E. O'Connor...
With such an impressive array of accomplishments going for him, Allen, 54, who ran the South's largest office-supply firm before he became mayor, was so confident of re-election this month that he even predicted his percentage of the vote: 72%. For a while, in fact, it...
Died. The Atlanta Times, 14-month-old daily launched by Georgia's ex-U.S. Congressman James C. Davis to boost segregation and fight what he called "radicalism"; of poor circulation (less than 75,000 v. an expected 125,000), debilitating losses ($3,000,000), and conspicuous lack of...
In many Deep South strongholds of segregation, local registrars last week were still using the old, familiar tactics of skulduggery and intimidation. Nonetheless, three weeks after the Voting Rights Act took effect, many thousands of Negroes had qualified as voters for the first time. "Almost everybody is getting registered who...
He ends with a plea: "If the Christian limited his practice to other Christians, thereby guaranteeing that the church, wherever it existed, at whatever cost, would not tolerate segregation within its body, then there would be a kind of fierce logic in its position. It would make for a kind...