Word: segregationism
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In Virginia last week readers of the state's most influential newspapers found the biggest news in weeks on the editorial pages. Long advocates of "massive resistance" to school integration, Richmond's Times-Dispatch and News Leader had decided that the commonwealth's maze of pro-segregation...
Continuing the longstanding opposition of the Roman Catholic Church to segregation, 210 of the U.S.'s 220 Catholic bishops met in Washington, D.C. last week, issued a tough statement on why and how segregation offends against morality and Christianity.
"Responsible and sober-minded Americans of all religious faiths, in all areas of our land," said the bishops, must "seize the mantle of leadership from the agitator and the racist . . . Legal segregation, or any form of compulsory segregation, in itself and by its very nature imposes a stigma of inferiority...
Meeting in Cincinnati, the Council of Bishops of the Methodist Church reaffirmed its support of the Supreme Court decision of 1954 against racial segregation in public schools. "We heartily commend," said the bishops, "those lay people, pastors and bishops who have demonstrated Christian courage in critical areas."
THE fortresses of segregation in troubled Little Rock last week were a onetime orphanage and two warehouses. In this slapped-together campus, the Little Rock Private School Corp. got classes started for 241 white seniors, promised 258 juniors that classes would start this week, boasted of a bankroll of $100...