Word: segregationist
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...ordinary time and clime, the election would have been of less than routine interest to most Americans; six unknown men were running to retain their places on the school board of a fair-sized U.S. city. But this was Little Rock, 20 months after segregationist rioting blazed into world headlines and 8½-months after the high schools closed rather than permit Negro children to sit with whites. This election was, in fact, a crucial test of whether Little Rock was ready to begin its return to sanity. Little Rock...
...Segregationist by creed but able lawyer by profession, Mississippi's Governor James Plemon Coleman is no man to fool around with racist lawlessness. Last month, when a bunch of masked toughs broke into a jail at Poplarville (pop. 2,500) to abduct and kill an accused Negro rapist named Mack Charles Parker, Governor Coleman acted swiftly and sensibly: he asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation to enter the case. From that point on, event followed event with the predictability of a Pearl White flicker...
...months the schools of Little Rock, Ark. have deteriorated under the segregationist pressure of Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus. By closing the four high schools, integration has been stopped cold, and this school year some 3,086 high school students have been forced to find private or correspondence schools. The remaining 579 students have attended no classes since fall and have had but one school function-playing football...
...complex school crisis. Result: clear understanding that the court had not ordered immediate mass integration, as many a Southerner feared, or left the states free to interpose their authority between the courts and specific schools, as Virginia's "massive resisters" began to preach. Hodges, himself a segregationist, pleaded with Negro leaders to maintain "voluntary separatism of the races." But, never first segregation before education, he pushed through laws (1955-56) which allowed local boards to accept Negro applicants, but gave local voters the ultimate "escape valve" choice of locking their schools rather than accept court-ordered integration-a choice...
...example, Johnson cited the New Orleans Item, the now-defunct paper for which he worked. In competition with a strong segregationist paper, the Item "took a strong, firm stand on both sides of every issue," Johnson commented...