Word: segregationism
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We are reminded of the Children's Crusade of 1212, of which Innocent III wrote: "The very children put us to shame." Children are the worst casualties of segregation, as long as it continues. If they can shame the Southerners and the Administration into more appropriate action, they will...
Though he was the greatest American Negro of the last century, Frederick Douglass was all but forgotten after his death in 1895. The nation was weary of the Negro problem, and Douglass, a Negro militant well in advance of the N.A.A.C.P. and CORE, did not suit the national temper. His...
But the new attack on segregation has revived interest in Douglass. His early autobiography, published in 1845, has now been reissued. Written when Douglass was 27 or 28 (he was never certain of his age, since the births of slaves were rarely recorded), it is a classic of abolitionist literature...
One can easily sympathize with the Congressman's belief that the administration is not doing enough about civil rights. It is questionable, however, whether dissatisfaction with Kennedy's civil rights record is Powell's only motive in introducing his amendments--the House Democratic leadership recently helped cut the funds for...
The education bill is in enough trouble without the issue of segregation to cause dissension among its supporters. To defeat the education bill is not the best way to advance the cause of civil rights.