Word: segregationism
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Governor James F. Byrnes's threat to abandon the public school system in South Carolina rather than give up segregation (TIME, March 26) got a sharp answer last week from the only Negro Nobel Prizewinner. Said Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, professor of government at Harvard (on leave) and onetime...
"Should the federal courts outlaw segregation in our schools we will, if it be possible, live within the law, preserve the public school system, and maintain segregation at the same time.
* As the law has been interpreted by the Supreme Court, segregation is legal, provided the state furnishes equal facilities for whites and Negroes.
South Carolina Governor James F. Byrnes was worried about an anti-segregation suit due for hearing in Charleston federal court this May. Regardless of the outcome there, he was sure the issue would eventually go right on up to his old colleagues on the U.S. Supreme Court, too. Last week...
Marshall, returning from an investigation in Korea, denounced the Army's policy of segregation and held up the Navy and Air Force policies as successful examples of integration of white and Negro troops. He traced injustice in the trials to Negro segregation.