Word: segregationism
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Based on definite educational needs and not on a vague democratic ideal, the report should gain wide support. Yet opposition to some of the Commission's proposals has already cropped up, and more will arise, if determined action follows the report. Federal aid to state institutions has long been a...
¶ Educational segregation, as in the South, requiring wasteful and expensive duplicate school systems, should be eliminated as soon as possible. Quota systems on such minority groups as Jews must be abolished.
¶ In Memphis, Mayor James J. Pleasants Jr. bent a dutiful ear toward Boss Crump, announced that the Negro and white races would have to see the Freedom Train separately. Freedom Train officials canceled the stop. But Atlanta's Mayor William Hartsfield refused to sanction such segregation: "I do...
"Applications will be acted on in order of receipt for all events, unless heavy demand for Yale basketball or hockey contests necessitate segregation by classes for those two games," Lunden said.
Increasing police brutality, discrimination against Negroes even in the nation's capital city, racial segregation in the armed forces, the wartime treatment of West Coast Japanese-Americans, and wide-spread discriminatory practices in housing and education all give graphic support to Truman's statement that the need for a concrete...