Word: segregationism
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Presidential Segregation. There are good and sufficient reasons to make Lyndon Johnson hesitate about running for President, much as he might covet the job. His health is a major consideration: in 1955 Johnson survived a more serious heart attack than the one that felled President Eisenhower two months later. But...
The problem of geography is more serious. If, in the vicissitudes of politics, he should be nominated and elected this year, Lyndon Johnson would be the first Southerner to become President since Andrew Johnson (no kin) was inaugurated in 1865. And since Andrew Johnson, an excommunicated Tennessean, lost his credentials...
During the Little Rock segregation crisis, Roman Catholic parochial schools of Arkansas seemed so safely segregated that many Protestant parents began sending their children to them. The Roman Catholic Bishop of Little Rock, Albert Louis Fletcher, 63, kept silent during the public school hassle, despite his own strong statement in...
Nearly six years and scores of lawsuits after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled school segregation unconstitutional, the Southern Education Reporting Service last week issued a glum report. Of the 17 affected states and Washington, D.C., only West Virginia and the District of Columbia are completely desegregated. Of the 3,039...
¶ In Boston, students from Harvard, M.I.T., Brandeis, and even prep schoolers home on vacation helped form an organization called EPIC (Emergency Public Integration Committee), picketed chain stores that practice segregation in the South, engaged Singer Harry Belafonte to kick off a fund-raising drive at Boston Arena.