Word: segregationism
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In Chicago, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., leader of last month's Battle of Birmingham, appeared before 5,500 excited people and brought them shouting to their feet when he said: "You must defeat segregation in Chicago because the de facto segregation of Chicago is as bad as...
The fever was everywhere, and every act seemed to fan the flames in another place. Fifteen hundred Chicago Negroes picketed a cemetery that had refused to cremate one of their race. In Michigan, a resort shut down when 50 pickets arrived with signs charging segregation there. In Baltimore, eight people...
Deals and Bargains. Still, the Kennedys persisted in their efforts at private persuasion. Bobby met with Southern theater owners, department store managers and other businessmen, hoping to convince them that segregation hurts them economically. The President called a meeting this week of some 100 Southern businessmen to apply this same...
Such advances create chinks in the walls of segregation, but do not crumble them. That can be achieved only when the U.S. Negro, with the same zeal that marked his revolution in the spring of 1963, actually earns acceptance that cannot be legislated, or ordered by courts, or won in...
On the other hand, white racists in the South have regrouped considerably since the Supreme Court school de-segregation decision of 1954, Handlin pointed out. "Since then a new racist ideology has appeared, the Klan has reassembled and pockets of hard-core resistance have developed."