Word: segregationism
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Up from Segregation. In the solid granite Capitol in Raleigh, white-haired Governor Luther Hartwell Hodges, 61, businessman turned politician, totted up some headline statistics that proved the vigor behind his fondest dream: from January to March, industry built some $25,000,000 worth of new plants in North Carolina...
Last fall the HLU sponsored--among other things--a speech by Linus Pauling, raised $300 for Clinton's bombed-out high school, and helped edit the Overseas Review, a digest of excerpts from the liberal press, designed especially for African and Asian students. "Our big topics this year are disarmament...
Restraint in criticizing segregation is often the only sensible course for Southern newspapers, Phil J. Johnson, Nieman Fellow, said last night in a speech sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe Society for Minority Rights.
Claiming that many Southern newspapers "can work for justice only in a negative way," Johnson explained that an outright stand on the segregation issue would result in a loss of circulation and advertising revenue, and might put a paper in danger of folding.
Although the newspaper was "attacked viciously by members of the White Citizens' Council," Johnson claimed that the Item went out of business for "complicated financial reasons." He expressed the opinion that if the paper had taken a strong stand against segregation, it would have folded much sooner.