Word: segregationism
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¶ After completing a statewide survey on desegregation, the Texas Poll, a service financed by Texas newspapers, reported that the U.S. Supreme Court will have considerable difficulty enforcing its decision against Jim Crow schools. Of 1,000 Texans sampled, 45% said they favored maintaining segregation either by disobeying the law...
In Georgia's Macon County (pop. 65% Negro), the contrast between the unchanged Old South and the ever-changing New South is evident everywhere. Negro men and women study at famed Tuskegee Institute not far from where a few practitioners of voodoo still do a lively business. Last week...
In 1893, the year White was born on the outskirts of Atlanta's Darktown, 152 U.S. citizens, mostly Negroes, were murdered by mobs. In his lifetime, 3,017 men and women were lynched in the U.S., but when Walter White died of a heart attack last week, there had...
He rarely caught the public eye again. In 1953, as the attorney for the state of South Carolina, he defended segregation in the schools of the South (TIME, Dec. 21, 1953). Last year he came to the aid of J. Robert Oppenheimer (TIME, June 14). He lost both cases. A...
"It is now obvious," said the Appeals Court, "that segregation cannot be justified as a means to preserve the public peace merely because the tangible facilities furnished to one race are equal to those furnished to the other . . . Racial segregation in recreational activities can no longer be sustained as a...