Word: segregationism
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We know the story. One December evening, a woman left work and boarded a bus for home. She was tired; her feet ached. But this was Montgomery, Ala., in 1955, and as the bus became crowded, the woman, a black woman, was ordered to give up her seat to a...
Montgomery's segregation laws were complex: blacks were required to pay their fare to the driver, then get off and reboard through the back door. Sometimes the bus would drive off before the paid-up customers made it to the back entrance. If the white section was full and another...
At the news of the arrest, local civil rights leader E.D. Nixon exclaimed, "My God, look what segregation has put in my hands!" Parks was not only above moral reproach (securely married, reasonably employed) but possessed a quiet fortitude as well as political savvy--in short, she was the ideal...
A 1956 Crimson article, written as part of a larger series tackling the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education school segregation decision, perhaps typifies the racial attitudes of the times. The article, headlined "Only Individual Bias Exists at Harvard," concluded that, "all in all, Harvard's admissions policy for Negroes...
"In the '60s, there were two very central, very dramatic, very black and white issues. One was racial segregation, one was the war in Vietnam," he says. "Since then, there hasn't been a single issue that has been central enough."