Word: segregationists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
Winans said yesterday that he plans to ask the Council to "issue a statement declaring it does not approve of any use of its NSA report against that organization." He explained, "many reactionary and segregationist groups in the South, particularly at the University of Florida, have used the findings of this report maliciously in attacks on NSA's prointegration stand...
...three British territories that make up the loosely knit Central African Federation, Southern Rhodesia comes closest to following the harsh segregationist ways of South Africa's apartheid. Negroes are barred from the Parliament, are excluded from most hotels, must use separate entrances to post offices and banks, are denied entrance to some shops, which serve them through hatches opening onto the sidewalk. By such measures. Southern Rhodesia's 211,000 whites have managed to keep a semblance of racial calm, but they have also alienated the blacks of Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia from the whole idea of federation...