Word: segregationism
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"Throughout the first sixty years of my life," wrote Bryant, "I never questioned but that Peter's confession that 'God is no respecter of persons' referred exclusively to the differences among white persons. Neither did I question that segregation was Christian and that it referred to the...
Governor Marvin Griffin of Georgia last night charged that the Supreme Court's segregation decision represents a "palpable and flagrant" usurpation of states' rights and an attempt "to transmute socialistic theory into law."
Debating the segregation issue with Griffin, Jacob K. Javits, Attorney General of New York State, predicted that wherever public funds and public authority are involved, all attempts at interposition will be "swept aside."
Javits called Griffin's speech an "erudite analysis of the old Southern position," but said that the Fourteenth Amendment had precluded the Governor's argument. The question is now, Javits said, "What is right for the United States?" especially in the light of the international effect of continued segregation.
Griffin has consistently been an out-spoken Southern leader in defiance of the Supreme Court's ruling against segregation in public schools.