Word: segregationism
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After the Plessy ruling, segregation laws spread like pestilence to include street cars, buses, taxicabs, schools, water fountains, bathrooms, juries, movie theaters, parks, facilities for the blind, libraries, lunch counters, hotels, waiting rooms, visiting days at the zoo, swimming pools, beaches and so on ad infinitum. They were so complete...
Against this backdrop, on May 17, 1954 all nine Justices voted to outlaw de jure segregation in the public schools. Fifty-eight years after Plessy, almost to the day, Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote: “Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.”
"The promise of Brown was not fulfilled in the way that we envisioned it," says U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige, who was a student at Mississippi's all-black Jackson State University when the decision was handed down. Within the first few years after the decision, paratroopers were protecting...
The heroes, Elliott knows, were the black families in Summerton who filed the lawsuit Briggs v. Elliott contesting the school district's discriminatory treatment of their children. It was the first of the four cases to be heard that would be combined in the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 Brown...
Elliott grew up without questioning segregation. But he changed in the 1960s, especially after a teaching stint at a black school run by Methodists. He now believes that it's his mission, particularly as R.M. Elliott's grandson, to bring about the same change of heart in his white neighbors...