Word: segregationism
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Rosa Parks was tired after a hard day as a seamstress in the basement of the Montgomery Fair department store in Montgomery, Ala., and she had to run a youth-group meeting later that night for her local N.A.A.C.P., which had been trying to find a way to protest the...
As Renata Plachetkova was rushed into the delivery room for the birth of her second child, a nurse thrust a paper in her face, saying, "You must sign. We will tie off your tubes. You won't have more children." Given no time to consider alternatives, and little explanation of...
Trent Lott drew criticism last month for a statement he made in honor of Sen. Strom Thurmond’s 100th birthday. Lott essentially said that the country would be a better place if Thurmond had been elected president in 1948, the year he ran as a Dixiecrat on a...
Many messages reflected current world issues, with calls for disarmament, peace and an end to the global AIDS epidemic, while others noted continuing racial inequality in America amid controversies over affirmative action in education and Sen. Trent Lott’s past support of segregation.
It was in the late 1940s that Rustin found his real calling--initiating one of the first Freedom Rides through the South to protest and confront legal segregation and becoming a key background figure in encouraging the desegregation of the armed forces. As an advocate of pacifism and nonviolence, Rustin...