Word: segregationism
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Yet in the wake of his retreats he has left passions that could lead only to such sickening crimes as Birmingham's Sunday school bombing. Today, many Alabamians who yield nothing to Wallace in their devotion to segregation accuse him of bringing about the bombing almost as surely as...
Racist sentiment runs high in the Black Belt. This feeling certainly includes the belt's major city-and state capital-of Montgomery (pop. 134,000), which prides itself on its wide avenues, colonnaded houses, and its devotion to the cause of segregation. It was in Montgomery that Martin Luther...
Mrs. Louise Day Hicks, chairman of the school committee, topped the ballot with 63,103 votes, followed by committeemen Thomas Eisenstadt (62,590), Joseph Lee (62,263), and William O'Connor (42,795). All three have backed Mrs. Hicks in rejecting an NAACP charge of de facto segregation in Boston...
The voting for the school committee is being watched primarily as a reflection of white opinion on the of do faste segregation in Boston's public schools. Although civil rights leaders have began a drive to register an estimated 15,000 who are eligible to vote, it will not bring...
Atkins, in the final address of the day, declared, "The School Committee is unable to decipher a Latin phrase. So we are here today to tell them that there is segregation, in fact, in Boston today."