Word: segregationism
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An anti-segregation law: "When will they learn, as the South has learned, that you cannot legislate racial harmony?"
It was not the "good people of the South" who were to blame. "It is the owners of the mines and mills, the great plantations and newspapers who incite violence . . . They have had others do their dirty work." But "the workers and farmers and independent businessmen of the South are...
Cried Wallace: "There is a long chain that links unknown young hoodlums in North Carolina or Alabama with men in finely tailored business suits in the great financial centers of New York or Boston, men who make a dollars-&-cents profit by setting race against race in the far away...
"The Southern white," wrote Carter, "is increasingly overcoming all but one of the emotional biases inherited from 250 mutually blighting years of a master & slave relationship. The one: the white South's insistence upon segregation in the mass . .. [It] is as united as 30 million people can be in...
"Slanted Selectivity." Some of Sprigle's findings, Carter conceded, were "tragically true. But . . . anyone who tours the South with a representative of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People isn't going to find anything good there ... it [the N.A.A.C.P.] isn't interested in the...