Word: segregationism
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¶ In Mississippi the state legislature adopted a new one-year trial program of "separate but equal" public education for Negro and white children. Starting in July the state will consolidate hundreds of small local schools, equalize Negro and white teachers' pay, provide 600 new school buses. Estimated cost...
His opponent is Lieut. Governor George Bell ("Little George") Timmerman, 41, a lawyer with offices in Lexington. Little George is the son of "Big George" Timmerman, once a power in the state's Democratic Party organization, and one of the federal district judges who ruled in favor of public...
There are few basic differences between the two candidates, e.g., both believe in public-school segregation. But the race issue has risen. There has been whispered criticism of Bates because his insurance company sells to Negroes; he will probably get most of the Negro vote. Although Timmerman has the behind...
¶ After 13 years of urging "clergy and laity, in season and out of season, to stop the sin of racial segregation," Roman Catholic Archbishop Robert E. Lucey issued a flat order to the 80 parochial schools in the archdiocese of San Antonio. "Henceforth," said he in a pastoral letter...
Depreciating talk of violence in the South should the Supreme Court bar segregation in schools, he labeled as "political talk" the threats of Governor Herman Talmadge of South Carolina that he would abolish the public school system in such a case.