Word: segregationism
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Nothing said about the South can ever be said without qualification. Cynics point out accurately that "new eras" in the South have been proclaimed before-and none was ever new enough. Still, in the past decade the Negro has gained more than in the whole century before, and in the...
There are still many ugly pockets of resistance. The South still accedes to Negro demands reluctantly, surrendering only token bits and pieces. But a majority of Southerners are now resigned to the irrevocable fact that the Negro's demands must be granted under the Constitution. Only a handful of...
In a speech before the New York City bar association, King strongly suggested that civil rights groups have a right to defy law-if only because "they had no part in making" so many laws that affect Negroes. What the U.S. needs, King said, is a "divine discontent." He spoke...
Integrated Crusades. Billy has often been accused of ignoring segregation, but it is a charge that does not bear scrutiny. Since 1950, he has refused to speak before segregated audiences, and has quietly integrated his own staff; one of his 14 associate evangelists, the Rev. Howard Jones of Ohio, is...
At each stop, about 200 residents--most of them children--greeted King wildly. At each stop, the heads of local parents' groups described efforts to combat school segregation or housing code violations. And at each stop, King warned the crowd that local problems must be solved by local organizations.