Word: segregationism
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Members of the Athenaeum last night defeated a resolution that the United States Supreme Court abolish segregation in the schools. Mark DoWolfe Howe '28, professor of Law, spoke against the resolution, which was supported by Professor Arthur E. Sutherland, also of the Law School.
Howe contended that the end of segregation would be more peacefully and and stably effected as the result of a process of gradual social change. Other negative speakers echoed his views, and the final vote was 11 to 6 against Court abolition.
Sutherland opened the debate with a survey of the history of the 14th Amendment, on which an anti-segregation ruling by the Court would be based. The Amendment prevents any state from depriving a citizen of "life, liberty, or property without due process of law," and requires "equal protection under...
The means of bringing about the end of segregation rather than the end itself was the basic question of the debate. Speakers on both sides upheld the legality of Supreme Court decision to declare segregation in the schools unconstitutional.
Two Law School professors will lead a debate on the Supreme Court's segregation issue at tonight's open meeting of the Athenaeum in Burr Hall B at 8 p.m. Mark A. DeWolfe Howe, professor of Law, will debate the affirmative of "Resolved: That racial segregation in schools should be...