Word: segregationism
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Your conclusion that the Negro can crumble the walls of segregation only by earning acceptance [June 7] is a good, idealistic approach. But don't stop there. Many Negroes of intelligence, prominence and respectability have been led to believe that they are acceptable; but time and again, with despair...
Enough? With that, Alabama was breached as the last state fortress of total school segregation. Attorney General Kennedy's tactics, to which he applied all his shrewd, tough abilities for detail-by-detail planning, had worked. But was that enough? Was it in any substantive sense a settlement to...
Political Coup. The Kennedys are nothing if not political-minded-and their approach to civil rights has been essentially political. During the 1960 campaign, they asked themselves not what a Kennedy Administration could do for the Negroes, but what the Negroes could do for John F. Kennedy on Election Day...
Only under the occasional stress of crisis did the Kennedy Administration move vigorously. Last year, when the outbreak of freedom rides threatened violent clashes in the South, Bobby got the Interstate Commerce Commission to issue an order banning segregation in terminals serving interstate transportation. Under that order, the WHITE and...
And there were sensible and serene gains chalked up for Negroes in other parts of the South: in Spartanburg, S.C., most downtown restaurants and lunch counters quietly dropped their racial barriers. At the University of Chattanooga, eight Negroes registered for the summer session without incident. In Birmingham, Martin Luther King...