Word: segregationism
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In cavernous Minneapolis Auditorium one day last week, the 766 delegates to the Quadrennial General Conference of the Methodist Church, representing more than 9,000,000 Methodists, stood up and applauded. Reason for their enthusiasm: the convention's solution of the most indigestible problem with which they had been...
Having a month ago passed a resolution endorsing segregation in the public schools, the school board of Louisiana's Bossier Parish (just across the Red River from Shreveport) took another step toward the preservation of its most cherished tradition. Last week it banned from all nine high-school libraries...
The bulletins from Washington that were front-paged across the nation one day last week held sensational legal and social implications: the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled that segregation is unconstitutional even on buses operating within single states, on the basis of the Fourteenth A.mendment.
It all added up to one of the biggest U.S. news snafus in years, triggered by a U.S. Supreme Court order so terse that the entire Washington press corps misunderstood it. "The appeal is dismissed," the Justices said, as they refused to accept an appeal of a case in which...
As the last cliché died away, a sheepish realization dawned that about all the U.S. had witnessed was a demonstration of how tautly its racial nerves are stretched. There was, nonetheless, a silver lining: some of the Southern bus lines that prematurely took down their segregation signs found the...