Word: segregationism
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The 1,300-word statement was sparked by Alabama-born Dr. Herman L. Turner, pastor of Atlanta's Covenant Presbyterian Church, and written by an informal group of 30-odd ministers who agreed with him that "the time had arrived when we had to say something." Other Southern church...
"I Accept the Challenge." Landing in Jackson, Kennedy read the local papers−and in them, a challenge from Mississippi Republican State Chairman Wirt Yerger Jr. for him to state his views on integration and segregation. While he kept an overflow reception crowd waiting in the Roof Room of the...
Unofficial segregation is nothing new. But in its attempt to do something about it this year, the New York municipal government has been caught in a vise of public opinion. William Jansen, Superintendent of Schools, has been pressured on one side by the parents of "segregated" pupils, and on the...
The Supreme Court's action threw Virginia officials into a state of uncertainty about their next action. The state's attorney general, Kenneth Patty, said: "I just don't know and am unable to say what the effect will be on the over-all segregation picture in the state."
Judge Hoffman, in holding the Pupil Placement Act unconstitutional, said it provided no adequate remedy for Negroes seeking admission to white schools because of what he described as "the fixed and definite policy of school authorities with respect to segregation."