Word: segregationism
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Perhaps the most remarkable demonstration of all came on Easter Sunday in Birmingham, Ala., citadel of segregation. There, some 35,000 people, Negro and white in almost equal numbers and comprising the largest integrated gathering in Alabama history, flocked to a city-owned football field to hear Evangelist Billy Graham...
Forms of Evasion. The procession began with a platoon of civil rights lawyers backed up by the Justice Department, arguing that Prince Edward County, Va., should not be permitted to evade court-ordered desegregation by abolishing its public school system. After the Supreme Court's landmark segregation decision a...
"We want to get you hooked on us" was the blunt challenge that greeted us five from Harvard (William Becker DivSch, William Whitney GSAS, Michael Boyd '66, Soheil Zendeh '65, and myself) upon our arrival in St Augustine, March 31. Hosca Williams, a Negro integrationist leader with boundless energy and...
A justifiable cause for caution among the Negroes has been the militant conservatism of St Augustine, where the John Birch Society is said to be strongly entrenched. Economic control of the Negro is gained by firing demonstrators. When the standard wage for domestics is $18 per forty-hour week (even...
"But now I'm beginning to get pessimistic. As quickly as a city is integrated, de facto segregation is setting in, We're going to have to fight through what the North is fighting through. The blooming days of Southern liberalism are not yet at hand."