Word: segregationism
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Bobby Kennedy has stamina, talent, guts and opportunity. He will need them all. Segregation, civil rights, corruption, racketeering, trustbusting are all passionate subjects, and he can expect to be the target of constant criticism, whatever he does.
More sobering than sermons are the statistics of the Southern Education Reporting Service, which last week added up this year's gains in Southern school integration. Negroes make up about one-quarter (3,097,534) of all Southern public school students. But only 195,625 are in integrated schools...
Moreover, the inconsistencies of the Supreme Court's 1959 decision with its opinions on segregation seem likely to become more and more conspicuous. At the same time, supporters of civil disobedience such as Uphaus will have to adjust their news to the idea that this defiance of the Court rests...
"I Won't Do It." As the legal struggle went against segregation, the fury of the mob outside the schools increased. The taunts grew more venomous. Husky men began to appear, ominously and silently, among the jeering women. The first to run the white boycott at William Frantz School...
The Offensive. Again, when New Orleans' Roman Catholic Archbishop Joseph F. Rummel declared that segregation was sinful, Leander Perez breathed defiance. Himself a Catholic, he accused the Catholic hierarchy of "turning against their own people." The New Orleans parochial schools remained segregated, and fortnight ago, as Archbishop Rummel lay...