Word: segregationists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Louisville, a segregationist composed a battle hymn: "Stand firmly by your cannon/Let ball and grapeshot fly/And trust in God and Faubus/But keep your powder dry." In Alabama four potential candidates for governor set a political pattern for the South, each desperately trying to outdo the others in praise of Faubus. One wired Faubus his congratulations. Another promised to back Faubus "at all costs." A third offered to go to jail to prevent integration. The fourth topped them all: he was willing to die for segregation...
...term for a governor. Moreover, his popularity was slipping: he had raised taxes, alienated his liberal followers by granting rate increases to railroads and utilities. He needed new support and he needed it badly. His solution: to win votes in conservative eastern Arkansas by setting himself up as a segregationist hero...
...that has become law, and we must learn to live with it." Back of the local officials stood Tennessee's Governor Frank Goad Clement, who called out the National Guard last year to enforce integration and the law in Clinton, Tenn., and this year sharply turned down a segregationist delegation that urged him to follow the lead of Arkansas' Orval Faubus...
...integration has slowed down. Of 800-odd school districts with both white and Negro children, 122 have at least partly integrated, and so have several state-supported colleges. But in eastern Texas, where 90% of the Negro schoolchildren live, segregation fences are as high and unscalable as ever. The segregationist camp showed its power this year when the state legislature passed a law under which any school district that integrates without first holding a local referendum loses its share of state school funds. With that law on the books, no more white schools have opened doors to Negroes...
...Carolina school plan, endorsed by Governor Luther H. (for Hartwell) Hodges was actually designed to minimize integration while appearing to satisfy the Supreme Court's desegregation order. It gave the state's 172 local boards complete authority over assigning individual students to the public schools. Many a segregationist who had supported the plan was shocked when the Greensboro, Charlotte and Winston-Salem boards decided last July to integrate-on a highly selective basis. With some Negro leaders helping screen applicants, strict standards were set up, e.g., to be accepted in white schools, Negro pupils must live nearer...