Word: segregationism
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Powell introduced such amendments throughout the Eisenhower administration, but agreed to stop advancing them when President Kennedy took office, ostensibly to see whether the President would take action in the field of civil rights. His announced motive for resuming the amendment game is a hope of irritating the President into...
The blaze of bombs, the flash of blades, the eerie glow of fire, the keening cries of hatred, the wild dance of terror in the night-all this was Birmingham, Ala. Birmingham's Negroes had always seemed a docile lot. Downtown at night, they slouched in gloomy huddles beneath...
(3 of 6) afternoon, King called a mass meeting at theNew Pilgrim Baptist Church. Outside, Bull Connor massed 50 policemen and a fire truck with water pressure cranked up to 700 Ibs. When the crowd of 1,000 poured out of the church just before dusk, they lined up and...
Identity & Myths. The history, as Baldwin sees it, is an unending story of man's inhumanity to man, of the white's refusal to see the black simply as another human being, of the white man's delusions and the Negro's demoralization. The theme floods his novels and essays...
"We ask you, sir," said the telegram to the President from Birmingham News Publisher Clarence B. Hanson Jr., "to use the influence of your office to end this open law violation and provocation [by Negroes]." All well and good. But how has the News used its influence since segregation tensions...