Word: segregationism
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In Texas, the legislature became acquainted with a University of Texas student, Wendell Addington, who joined the Communist Party soon after his discharge from the Army in 1946. As youth director for the state of Texas, Addington frequently testified before state legislative committees in opposition to segregation practices and on...
In Florida, the House Communism Investigating Committee is getting ready to start a study of possible Communist influences at the University of Florida, Florida State University, and Florida A. and M. College. Nobody has been dismissed as yet, but the legislature plans to ask instructors for a loyalty oath and...
Whether the Air Force really meant to end discrimination remained to be seen. "There won't be an end to segregation in the services," remarked one Negro officer, "until they call a roll some day and you can look and see black & white, black & white. It's a...
Behind Taft's leadership, the Senate beat back an attempt, by Massachusetts' Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., to tack on an anti-segregation provision, which would have smothered the bill in Southern votes. An effort of Missouri's Republican Forrest Donnell to bar Roman Catholic schools from even...
Ruefully, Douglas admitted that he had probably succeeded only in "getting everyone angry and cutting my own political throat from ear to ear." The vote proved otherwise. By a vote of 49 to 31, eight Republicans helped 41 Democrats slap down John Bricker's non-segregation amendment. Among the...