Word: segregationism
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Perdew cited Negro resignation to segregation as a major obstacle in his own work for voter registration. Many Negroes find his message disturbing, and as a result resent him. "Every Negro in Americus knows who I am, where I've been for the past three months, and what I've...
The majority opinion, handed down by Chief Judge Elbert P. Tuttle of the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and District Judge Lewis R. Morgan, was based on the Civil Rights Act of 1870, which gives district courts jurisdiction over civil actions by individuals seeking redress of denial of their...
Fraud, even if proved, "would be totally irrelevant to the real issues," Sutherland contended. He pointed to the decision in Bolling v. Sharpe, announced the same day as Brown v. Board of Education. In this case, the Court held that "segregation in public education is not reasonably related to any...
Sutherland also pointed to a whole chain of post-1954 decision involving buses, parks, golf courses, and other public facilities in which child psychology was not an issue. "It is fairly clear that the expert testimony of Clark has little to do with the constitutionality of segregation," he stated.
He also rejected the charge that segregation was harmful to the image of the U.S. in Africa and Asia, saying that "they ought to worry about what we thing of them. The average native of those places doesn't know where he is, much less where Mississippi and Alabama are...