Word: segregationism
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When the Supreme Court decrced an indefinite period for the "adjustment of local problems" in desegregation, even enthusiastic liberals must have felt considerable relief. The prospect of enforcing a law that some citizens seem prepared to break violently is not a pleasant one. The Court evidently hopes that under this...
When the bill was endangered by an anti-segregation amendment which threatened to drive off southern support, Rep. Vinson (D-Ga.) won a quick motion to suspend consideration. He said he was acting to save "the battered, almost defeated, bill."
Yet however radical its decree, the Supreme Court is unlikely to achieve immediate school integration. Where governmental and educational leadership sympathize with the Court, integration can proceed smoothly--as indeed it already has in many border states. But in the Deep South, where leaders are by instinct--or at least...
In Mississippi, Georgia, and Louisiana, voters have adopted resolutions which would allow their states to sponsor "private school systems" which might escape court jurisdiction. Artistic gerrymandering can define districts so cleverly that not a single Negro will live in most white school zones. The Schools Commissioner of Memphis could proudly...