Word: segregationism
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Strictly in the Groove. A sharecropper's son, Jimmie Davis always had the knack of strumming his way toward the top. In the old days he held minor offices, taught school (tutoring yodeling on the side), even made B pictures in Hollywood (Strictly in the Groove, Frontier Fury). His...
¶ In Montgomery, Ala., where the Negroes' peaceful resistance to segregation sparked the bitterly successful 1956 bus boycott (TIME, Dec. 31, 1956), city fathers sold off the last animals in the Oak Park Zoo four months after a U.S. district court ruled that segregation in the park was unconstitutional...
School Segregation: The Supreme Court's 1954 decision against segregation was an "affirmation and clarification of the essential liberties and the abiding principles by which America must live."
But one reality collides with another: Atlanta may face an even worse segregation crisis than Little Rock's. Under Georgia law, integration in a single school automatically shuts down the entire local system; nonfederal funds are cut off. Obvious solution is amending the law to allow integration in Atlanta...
Vandiver's actions should speak softer than his words. He can close Atlanta's schools for breaking the state segregation law, but Atlantans furnish 30% of the state's entire tax revenue, and they would scarcely relish paying to educate other Georgia children while their own are...