Word: segregationism
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Several professors yesterday agreed the Supreme Court's refusal to review a lower court decision prohibiting segregation of Negroes on railway cars was a small step--but a step forward, at any rate--in the fight against Jim Crow laws in the South.
In 1948, William C. Chance, a Negro, was ejected from an Atlantic Coastline train in Virginia when he refused to move to a Negro coach. He sued, and the Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond decided in 1951 the Company's segregation rule was invalid. The Supreme Court now, in...
On the other hand, the Democratic platform is quite specific. "We pledge enactment of federal legislation prohibiting discrimination in employment because of race, color, religion, or national origin and establishment of a federal agency to enforce that prohibition." The plank also advocates legislation against segregation in inter-state transportation, against...
Carrington, who is national vice-chairman of Students for Stevenson, called Republican nominee Dwight D. Eisenhower a "Johnny-come-lately" in civil rights. According to Carrington, Eisenhower testified before Congress in favor of segregation in the armed forces, and refused to lend his name while president of Columbia University to...
Civil Rights. "We must make equality of opportunity a living fact for every American, regardless of race, color or creed . . . There can be no second-class Americans . . . For 20 years, leaders of the Administration have been making promises . . . And yet after those 20 years, racial segregation still exists in our...