Word: segregationism
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Marvin Griffin, Governor of Georgia and leading opponent of integration, will debate Jacob K. Javits, New York State Attorney General, on the issue of Southern segregation tonight in a Law School Forum.
At week's end Tennessee's Kefauver dropped into Nashville to tighten the wires on his home fences. Asked why he had refused to sign the Southern congressional manifesto (TIME, March 26) condemning the Supreme Court decision on desegregation of the public schools, Kefauver said evenly: "The Supreme...
The News (one of the first papers in the South to run pictures of Negroes) ran Mitchell's picture on the front page with a story that began: "Traditional race segregation in Florence lost its first court test yesterday."
Abdication. That was the last straw. Fortnight ago O'Dowd announced "a retreat from reason" in a long editorial. "It has become obvious," he wrote, "that to maintain effectiveness in other important areas of thought, this newspaper must abdicate its position in the segregation controversy. We have seen the...
Last week sympathetic letters streamed into O'Dowd's office. "Your editorial," began a typical one, "made me feel guilty." Said O'Dowd: "I realized there was a considerable amount of support for the views of moderation, but I didn't realize how big it was...