Word: segregationism
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Hip Deep. By week's end it was apparent that New Orleans would be no Little Rock. For one thing, Jimmie Davis and his legislature, perhaps mindful of Little Rock, did not care to back their last-ditch segregation laws with National 'Guard power, and after flare-ups...
After hearing arguments from both sides, a special three-man panel of federal judges agreed to rule on the constitutionality of the Louisiana legislature's surge of segregation laws. In addition, the school board asked for a temporary suspension of integration while the court ruled on the state'...
This case is much more than a New Hampshire affair: it links together not only the debate over personal freedom but those over the Federal-State relationship, several relevant segregation decisions and the attitude toward the controversial Supreme Court.
The limitation of Uphaus's freedom of association illustrates how little segregation and civil liberties decisions really impinge upon each other. When Alabama tried to force the NAACP to hand over membership lists, the Court answered that group privacy is indispensable to freedom of association. Since Wyman was cooperating with...
Yet this appeal to the superior authority of his conscience, the values of his religious group, and the Bible, is just the one made by defenders of segregation. There is a fundamental conflict here. The irony of this case is that in employing civil disobedience and challenging the authority of...