Word: segregationism
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Executives of the Red and Black, University of Georgia newspaper, resigned last November rather than comply with pressure by University Regents and state politicians to stop the editors' stand against racial segregation.
When the top editors resigned, other staff members took over the paper, but they, in turn, resigned after the University imposed faculty censorship on the paper. This spring, the new managing editor, running for president, took a stand against segregation. He was unanimously defeated by a student-faculty board of...
From another college source comes a less matter-of-fact appraisal. "A number of professors hero are now feverishly trying to obtain positions elsewhere, and many expected to resign in the near future. Department heads and administrators also admit that it is going to be difficult to recruit new members...
Now, finally, the Supreme Court's decision outlawing segregation will eliminate this whole problem at one stroke. It will give the Southern Negro access to the education without which he can never hope to achieve equal status. It will eliminate the despotic Negro school administrator, and it will force the...
Elsewhere in the South, citizens and officials were also facing the problems brought on by the U.S. Supreme Court's decision against segregation in the public schools. St. Louis took the first step by removing the color line in its special schools for handicapped children. White and Negro pupils...