Word: segregationism
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Can it again be true that "a little child shall lead them"? A rousing cheer to Christian Angie Evans, who had the courage to speak up at the anti-integration meeting [TiME, Sept. 22] in Van Buren, Ark. I am a "Southern moderate" whose voice is buried under the tide...
"This statement is not made with any enmity or hatred in our hearts for the Negro race. We have an abiding love for all people . . . We believe that the best interests of all races are served by segregation.
Throughout the Bible Belt only a handful of pulpits ring with talk about the brotherhood of man-if brotherhood implies sitting together in a schoolroom. Pro-segregation sentiment is strongest in the areas where the rooted religion is Baptist and where the pentecostal sects flourish.
Underground Work. The denominational churches, including Presbyterians, Methodists and Episcopalians, include far more anti-segregation partisans. Even so, men like Dr. William M. Elliott of the Highland Park Presbyterian Church of Dallas, who has frequently denounced segregation as morally indefensible, and Episcopal Minister Duncan Gray Jr. of St. Peter'...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.--Little Rock's high schools were still closed Tuesday but the leader of the group that sought to operate them on a private basis said new plans are being drawn to continue the fight for segregation.