Word: segregationism
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As part of the conference, sponsored by the Harvard U.N. Council, Miss Joan Human of the South African Government Information Office told the 150 delegates from New England colleges Saturday that segregation is the best policy for South Africa. A resident of Liberia challenged her and inquired whether "this woman...
Marshall and Marion Wright, President of the Southern Regional Conference, both called for the immediate abolishment of segregation. "We should now repeal all segregation statutes," Wright stated.
"But by going too fast we may turn the clock back," warned Alfred G. Ivey, Nieman Fellow and associate editor of the Winston-Salem Journal. "Segregation," he said, "cannot be eliminated immediately by law."
"Segregation may be ended and ended now," Wright said, pointing out that some schools in the South had opened their doors to Negroes and that student polls in colleges favored the admittance of Negroes."
"Segregation will always mean discrimination," he said, for its conditions "are always separate, never equal." He decried segregation's "folly and waste," citing the cost of establishing equal facilities in the South for Negoes at one billion dollars.