Word: segregationist
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...dismissal slips for park employees, prepared to seal off sites with no-trespassing signs. At about that point, a lot of Birmingham's citizens, not necessarily integrationists, decided that they liked their public facilities too much to give them up. "Why not keep the parks open," asked the segregationist Birmingham Post Herald, "and give our people a chance to see whether they can continue to operate without trouble...
...University of Texas turned against their regents last week in a sharp demand for full integration of the South's biggest campus. In an atmosphere charged with resentment, rebellion and disgust, Chancellor Harry Ransom and President Joseph Smiley found themselves paralyzed by the need to accommodate the segregationist regents and unable to drop racial bars at a campus that plainly wanted them dropped...
...campus opinion began openly to buck the regents on two important scores: integration of dormitories and varsity teams. The student assembly voted 22 to 2 to integrate Texas' teams, 23 to 0 to integrate a men's dorm. But the nine regents, all of them appointed by segregationist Governor Price Daniel and former Governor Allan Shivers, voted to ignore the students' voice. "Narrow-minded, backward and hypocritical," Student President Maurice Olian called the regents' decision...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Liberal Union audience yesterday that the Negro will need a political voice to gain equality under the law and in employment and education. He cited the example of Memphis, where, after the city's Negro vote proved a crucial factor in re-electing Senator Kefauver over a segregationist opponent, schools and recreational facilities began desegregation without court order and without violence...
...Club of Little Rock to the United Church Women of Fort Smith. The reason for his urgency: Fulbright faces his most serious opposition since he defeated Senator Hattie Caraway and Governor Homer Adkins in 1944. Democratic Representative Dale Alford, who went to Washington two years ago as an effective segregationist vote getter, has been redistricted out of his seat and has ambitions for Fulbright's. Governor Orval Faubus, finishing a record fourth term as Governor, might be tempted by the larger scope of Washington. Both Alford and Faubus would campaign against Fulbright by calling him a one-worlder...