Word: segregationism
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People seized upon the Houston mailman for a test case. Its argument: the U.S. Supreme Court decided in the Gaines Case (1938) that Negroes must be admitted to white schools, unless "equal facilities" are provided for them by the state. Texas'...
When the heretofore wide-open Club 100 refused to admit two undergraduates last week, Harvard was faced with its first taste of public racial discrimination within memory. Until last Saturday evening members of the College community were under the impression that decent conduct was the only qualification determining which public...
Man's Fear. Modern research has disproved many of mankind's ancient notions about leprosy. The disease is only slightly contagious (much less so than tuberculosis); in 52 years,, no Carville nurse or doctor has caught it. Yet every state but New York requires segregation of lepers.
On the strength of the hopeful new treatments, the newly created National Advisory Council on Leprosy decided last week that it was high time for a more humane attitude toward lepers. Their recommendations (to Surgeon General Thomas Parran): 1) new diagnostic centers and clinics for treatment in the four states...
But Washington heard her. She sang, first in the open air in front of the Lincoln Memorial. Later the D.A.R. leased her Constitution Hall, and she sang to a brilliant white and Negro audience. She had insisted only that there should be no segregation in the seating. Nobody knows the...