Word: segregationism
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To the first united service came the bishop himself, unannounced, and there were some pushing and hauling as about 40 white men tried to storm past a young assistant to see him in the rectory. He interviewed them two by two. Segregation, he told them, was a product of "darkness...
May I take the privilege to offer two minor [criticisms]? The estimate of Booker Washington is only partly correct. In the beginning of his work he labored in such a limited field that he had to accept, for the time being, second-class citizenship. But that time passed, and there...
¶In Nationalist South Africa, Prime Minister Daniel Malan ordered South Africa's largest city, Johannesburg, to obey his three-year-old law, which compels segregation of blacks, browns and whites. Under the law, 70,000 blacks and 22,000 Indians, many of them prosperous shopkeepers, will be ejected...
Although many Southerners today will agree that segregation is wrong in principle, the vast majority still fiercely defends it as right in practice. A mass of state laws and city ordinances enforces it. But Southerners seem to know in their hearts that it is not really defensible, and that the...
There are fewer outstanding Negro leaders on the national scene today than ever before. Negro leaders have found that, as their people's status improves, the business of leadership gets tougher. Walter White, executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, recalls that back in the...