Word: segregationism
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CAMBRIDGE, MD. National Guardsmen with fixed bayonets patrolled the streets to enforce martial law. A 10 p.m. curfew was imposed on all Cambridge citizens. The militiamen were ordered into Cambridge by Maryland's Governor J. Millard Tawes after Negro demonstrations threatened to break into open warfare between the races...
Such criticisms plainly dictated a shift in Administration strategy. In mid-May the President announced that he would soon send a package of civil rights measures to Congress. Since then the debut has been twice postponed while Justice Department lawyers worked over the details. Scheduled to be dispatched to Capitol...
The Shadowy Realm. For years after the Supreme Court's 1954 school desegregation decision, the Negroes' drive for equality remained essentially a struggle of law. It was directed mostly against governmental authorities maintaining official segregation in the South and the border states. Gradually, however, the Negroes have come...
In the North, indeed, law cannot be expected to do much, if anything, to meet the Negroes' demands. Negroes already have full equality before the law-yet they are angrily restive about the injustices that have been inflicted upon them. And in their struggle against unofficial segregation, the Negroes...
Before the effects of past discrimination can be eroded away, the U.S. must abolish present discrimination. Some well-meaning whites exhort the Negroes to lift themselves up, study, aspire, become qualified, earn the equality they demand. Discrimination, the argument runs, would dwindle much more rapidly if disparities of culture and...