Word: segregationist
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...first black artists to achieve such international recognition, Anderson, whose repertory ranges from Bach to spirituals, took a strong stand against the segregationist laws that were still in effect until the mid-1960s...
Rosenthal said Wilson's ideas about genetics could be used by segregationist groups as a rationale for claiming the inevitability of racial inequities...
...Anglican Church (1.7 million) met last week with government officials and announced plans to integrate their 20 schools. Said one: "It is our Christian duty." The Methodists (2.1 million) have also announced plans to integrate their four schools. The powerful Dutch Reformed Church (3.5 million) remains strongly segregationist, however. The churches that are moving toward integration have won voluble backing in the more liberal newspapers. "For God's sake leave them alone!" trumpeted one, Johannesburg's Sunday Express...
...nomination of Carter's fellow Georgian and longtime friend, Federal Judge Griffin Bell, to be Attorney General. The N.A.A.C.P., the Congressional Black Caucus and some liberal Democrats all assailed Bell. Joseph Rauh, vice chairman of Americans for Democratic Action, charged that Bell had given "aid and comfort to segregationists" while an Atlanta attorney, chief of staff to Georgia's segregationist Governor Ernest Vandiver and a member of the federal bench. Black Caucus Chairman Parren Mitchell accused Bell of being "the mastermind of Georgia's massive resistance" to school desegregation when he advised Vandiver from...
Bell did not help his cause-or Carter's-with his fumbling response to newsmen's questions after his nomination. He insisted that when he endorsed Carswell, he was not aware that Carswell had once made a strongly pro-segregationist speech. Yet the speech was widely reported at the time, as he later conceded. He also waffled when questioned about his membership in two Atlanta clubs-the Capital City Club and the Piedmont Driving Club-that have not admitted blacks or Jews as members. Bell announced that he would quit the clubs only after Carter had made...