Word: segregationism
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The District's lawyers had a strange rebuttal. Congress established Washington's separate Negro schools in 1862 to "elevate" the ex-slaves, said Assistant Corporation Counsel Milton Korman. Washington Negroes have never had nonsegregated education, hence "they haven't enjoyed any right that has been taken away...
Last year Herman Talmadge's Georgia legislature decided that any school district which did not provide separate schools would automatically lose its state funds. If segregation is declared unconstitutional, Georgia intends to turn the schools over to private operators and some how parcel state funds to individual students and...
The South is painfully aware that "separate but equal," if fully carried out, imposes a double tax burden which most communities cannot stand. And therein lies the hope of Southern reformers for an evolutionary answer to segregation without a drastic new court decision. Some Southern school districts would rather combine...
Last week the disagreeing lawyers broadly agreed that a court decision which wrought an overnight change would be harmful. The Department of Justice, as a "friend of the court," reminded the Justices that the court often provides for "gradual relocation" in its sweeping antitrust decrees. N.A.A.C.P. Lawyer Marshall suggested that...
* The 17: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi. Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina. Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia. The four "permissive" states: Arizona, Kansas, New Mexico and Wyoming. The District of Columbia falls somewhere in between: the schools have always been segregated and Congress has officially...