Word: segregationism
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In Jackson, Miss. House Speaker Sam Rayburn, a Texas Democrat who had spent years trying to make the Democratic tent big enough for both North and South, refused to discuss segregation ("I don't think it would be helpful to talk about it"), attempted to turn the anger of...
The students knew little about the facts of the racial situation; many thought, for example, that school segregation existed throughout the country. But there was an obvious emotional involvement in the Negroes' struggle for civil rights, illustrated by the repeated habit of terming them "our brothers." The Nigerians were pleased...
But the court went far beyond the specific litigation of the Little Rock case to look at the web of integration-dodging laws being spun throughout the South. "State legislators or state executive or judicial officers," said the court, cannot nullify "the constitutional rights of children not to be discriminated...
Hot Words. Labor M.P. Fred Peart cried that fee-charging education "buys positions of privilege in industry and politics. What's good enough for the dull son of a rich man must be good enough for the brilliant son of the poor man ... I condemn racial segregation; and I...
This year NSA passed one hundred resolutions, purporting to be the voice of American students. They gave an average of three to five minutes debate on each resolution, often failed to explain them and laughed down opposition to the resolution on the floor. No advance notice was given of the...