Word: integrationist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...probability is that Negroes will not necessarily support Negro candidates. To attract their votes, many white segregationist politicians have already markedly muted their pronouncements on racial issues. In Mississippi, where the militant Freedom Democratic Party last week entered a slate of integrationist candidates for Congress (five Negroes and one white), N.A.A.C.P. Leader Dr. D. L. Conner allowed that members of his race "would do well to vote for sympathetic whites who are intelligent and fair...
Until 1954, Thurman argues, the , Southern white liberal had been willing to improve the Negro's lot−better colored schools, better ghettos−so long as the system remained intact. But after 1954, the liberal could go on helping the Negro only by declaring himself an integrationist under the terms of the Supreme Court decision. And since he was no integrationist, he withdrew...
...broad terms, Stampp sees both men acting in consonance with the political convictions they held before they rose to power. Lincoln, the Whig, was always a Unionist, never an integrationist. Before the war he had opposed slavery, but he had wanted to colonize the slaves in Africa rather than to liberate them in America. He never conceived of Negroes as equal, fully capable participants in American society. His greatest concern after the war was indeed to bind up the nation's wounds through clemency for the South. he also intended to revive Whig strength by restoring the political prominence...
...Mild. Not that John Sparkman is an integrationist-far from it. Over the years he has voted against more than 100 civil rights bills. But to diehard segregationists, he has never sounded as though he really meant it. Last week, in a Senate speech against an anti-poll-tax amendment to the voting rights bill, Sparkman said stolidly: "Legislation such as this, which is not designed to be applicable to the whole nation at large, is not sound, and Congress should think long and hard before it plunges emotionally into promulgating an extreme measure...
Speaking at Christ Church's midwinter dinner, Pettigrew stressed the dilemma within the Church. Rectors who support the Church integrationist idelogy, he said, risk losing money and members. If they moderate their positiins, however, they sacrifice ideals, he added...