Word: support
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chance for change. He is threatening to push a bill that would make existence of a black-majority school within any largely white system prima facie evidence of segregation. His move, which could mean a loss of federal funds for racially imbalanced school districts, needs both Northern and Southern support if it is to pass. Neither is likely to be forthcoming...
...bought the residence he retreats to now. He is out to prove that you can go home again. Last week, on the day before his 57th birthday, the President, Pat and Tricia registered as California voters in the Orange County courthouse. One young well-wisher carried a sign saying SUPPORT OUR LOCAL PRESIDENT...
...Charles Evers, mayor of Fayette. They plan a selective buying campaign aimed at the pocketbooks of white merchants and businessmen who donate either money or equipment to the segregation academies. "We're not going to argue with white folks," Evers said. "We're just not going to support them. If we're not good enough for them to go to school with us, we're not good enough to spend money with them." Secretary Finch has called upon the Treasury Department to end the tax-exempt status now enjoyed by private schools that are being...
...white parents who want to avoid integration, his assurances are more political than practical. Federal courts have already struck down schemes for state aid to segregated education in Virginia and Alabama, and Williams' transparent plans differ only slightly from those earlier subterfuges. While the state legislature will undoubtedly support the Governor, the courts are unlikely to go along. Thus, the best that Williams can offer his white constituents is merely another false hope, and that only a short-lived one. Mississippi has already had since 1954 to comply with the U.S. Supreme Court's school-desegregation decision...
...system is just as important to their children as it is to blacks, local white leaders began more than a month ago to prepare their city for the shock of final desegregation. A loosely knit committee of prominent whites met with the city's whites, urging them to support the public schools rather than abandon them. School administrators worked through the Christmas holiday to shift classrooms and equipment, and persuaded all of the system's 186 teachers to stay on the job. Even stu dents joined in the effort to pre serve their schools. The Yazoo City high...