Word: segregationism
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At the College of William and Mary in Virginia, the guests included Chief Justice Earl Warren and his British counterpart, Lord Chief Justice Goddard. Members of the Virginia judiciary were there, as well as such celebrities as Arthur Lehman Goodhart, master of University College, Oxford, and Judge Harold Medina. The...
¶ In Baltimore, the Board of School Commissioners formally filed a demurrer to a suit brought by parents of seven white schoolchildren, the Maryland Petition Committee, and a few-months-old group calling itself the National Association for the Advancement of White People, who had hoped to force the board...
* In Albany the New York Education Department announced that it was gradually abolishing segregation of another sort. By this fall, 90% of the state's 1,818 Indian children had been removed from the ramshackle schools on their reservations, are now attending regular public school.
But as the Court has recognized, implementation of its ruling will be difficult. The mentality that bred segregation has not yet died. For legal decisions cannot eliminate apathetic, even hostile state legislatures. And they can only slowly conquer the fear that creates men like Benner C. Turner.
As Mr. Murphy meant them, these sentences are not at all contradictory. The knowledge of Communism to which he refers is the kind held by every homegrown demagogue who can "spot a Red when he sees one" and is quick to pin the label on even some of the ones...