Word: segregationism
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But the day after the election, into Birmingham came the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., hero of the 1956 bus boycott in Montgomery. Without consulting most of the Birmingham Negro leaders, King announced that "Birmingham is the most thoroughly segregated big city in the U.S. today," said that he would...
There is, in fact, a strong current of conservatism in Negro Atlanta, and many Negro clergymen, store-owners, teachers and small businessmen find "their solace in the the here and now" specifically in upholding a framework of segregation from which they profit. This is a phenomenon that has received little...
Hoping to dramatize their cause, the student leaders recently appealed for the help of outstanding U.S. Negroes. Into Greenwood last week came Chicago's Dick Gregory, 30, a nightclub-circuit comedian, whose stock in trade is acidulous (and sometimes funny) commentary on segregation, both Southern and Northern. His performance...
There is a slight possibility that Soc Sci 7, a course dealing with the role ot law in England and America and focusing on libel laws and segregation in past years, might be returned to the curriculum. Mark DeWolfe Howe, professor of Law, taught the class, however, and said last...
Politically, the students have generally tended to be conservative though never quite to the extent that the vocal minority has represented them to be. Most students favor segregation, but few support discrimination (and the two can be separated). The majority supports a conservative interpretation of the Constitution, but few would...