Word: courts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...M.I.T. the issue was the November Action Coalition's demand that military research be canceled at two off-campus laboratories and the Center for International Studies (TIME, Nov. 7). Relying on law rather than force, M.I.T. President Howard W. Johnson got a court order barring demonstrators from disrupting school activities. The tactic was partly successful. About 1,000 protesters milled outside while others marched through the first floor of the administration building, made speeches, voted not to seize the president's office, and left peacefully after several hours. The next day, about 350 protesters picketed the Instrumentation Laboratory...
...that the Supreme Court has decreed an immediate end to racial segregation in Southern public schools, many white resisters have only one place left to turn: private white "segregation academies." In recent years, the South has blossomed with more than 200 such schools, which are set up for the sole purpose of excluding blacks. According to one recent estimate, at least 300,000 white students out of 7,400,000 now attend segregated private schools in eleven Southern states. By all the evidence, the new academies will increase that total fast...
...segregation academies are conceived and born hardly helps. Typical is the new Sandy Run Academy in Swansea, S.C., a rural town whose population of 1,800 is 40% black. Until a year ago, Swansea had escaped all but token integration. But when the school board finally bowed to federal court orders to integrate Grades 10, 11 and 12, Swansea parents boycotted the public school. When the boycott petered out after two weeks, its instigators rushed ahead with plans to start a private high school...
...York State's constitution. Called the "conservation bill of rights," it makes preservation of natural resources and scenic beauty a state policy. It also directs the state legislature to write laws that will reduce air, water and noise pollution, thus providing legal grounds for conservation battles in court. Says Attorney Irving Like, one of the framers of the amendment: "It is primarily a new source of common law and legislation...
...Hoffman raised a whole new set of volatile issues. Incensed at Black Panther Bobby Scale, the defiant defendant whom Hoffman had ordered gagged and manacled to his chair, the 74-year-old judge suddenly declared a mistrial for Seale and found him guilty on 16 charges of contempt of court. Without much further ado, Hoffman sentenced Seale to three months in prison on each count - a total of four years...