Word: segregationism
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The Supreme Court was about to hear final, oral arguments on one of the most momentous issues to come before the court in its 164-year history, perhaps the most important question that ever came before a Chief Justice so early in his tenure. The crucial question: Should segregation in...
Speaking for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Thurgood Marshall, eminent Negro constitutional lawyer, told the court that the defenders of school segregation were asking for "an inherent determination that the people who were formerly in slavery . . . shall be kept as near that stage as possible." Said...
On the other hand, John W. Davis, dean (80) of the nation's constitutional lawyers, arguing for segregation, maintained that separate schools are not only constitutional but often better for the Negroes. Representing the state of South Carolina, the white-haired Davis told the court: "Recognize that for 60...
"I do not deny that there is authority in the United States to abolish segregation," Howe explained. He said that he felt a Court edict would only give rise to political delaying tactics and possible social upheaval in the South, however.
The states would soon find the maintenance of separate but actually equal facilities too costly to continue, and, what with the gradually improving economic status of the Negro, segregation would die a natural and comparatively painless death.