Word: segregationism
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2. Supreme Court bans school segregation.
Following Georgia and South Carolina, Mississippi last week became the third state to approve the idea of abolishing public schools in order to get around the U.S. Supreme Court's decision against segregation. Out of 135,000 ballots cast, two out of three were in favor of a drastic...
Though the amendment will be used only as a last resort-and may well involve the illegal use of taxpayers' money for private schools-Mississippi has been well conditioned for it. Almost from the moment that the Supreme Court spoke, Governor Hugh White, 73, promised to "make certain that...
"To be expelled for violation of Florida's segregation law is one thing; to be expelled because of an unfounded suspicion is another.
Shock Treatment. The plot began to unfold last spring when Braden bought a ranch-style house in a quiet, all-white suburban section outside Louisville, then transferred title to Andrew Wade, a Negro electrical contractor. In Louisville, where the hard lines of segregation are disappearing slowly, Braden's Communist...