Word: segregationism
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Speaking last night before the Harvard Law School Forum, the Rev. Martin Luther King declared "we have come a long long way in the fight for integration, but we have a long, long way to go. If democracy is to live, segregation must die."
Discussing "The Future of Integration," King stated that the progress of integation has been considerable, especially since World War II. The average wage earnings of the negro worker are far greater than they were ten years ago, and the illeteracy rate has dropped tremendously, he said. Lynchings have virtually ceased...
"But we have a long way to go," he warned, "before racial segregation is entirely wiped out." Discrimination in industry is still serious, and the obvious problems of segregation in schools and public buildings continue to plague the Negro, he said. "The clock of destiny is ticking out and we...
Negro Bass Player Charlie Mingus is a talented, successful and angry man-so angry, in fact, that he planned to leave for an island in the Mediterranean and never return to the U.S. Mingus changed his mind, but the anger remains. It is shared in some degree by many Negro...
"Smile, Nigger!" Even if there had been no students jeering him and no U.S. marshals guarding him, Meredith would have been a strange figure on that campus. At 29. he was visibly older than his fellow students. His somber suit, neatly knotted tie and shined shoes contrasted with the campus...