Word: equal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...District Court of the District of Massachusetts. The 14 words that impelled his forced busing mandate lie at the tail of the 14th amendment to the U.S. Constitution, passed three years after the 13th amendment freed black and all other slaves. This vague and pivotal half-sentence, dubbed "The Equal Protection Clause," requires that "no State shall...deny to any person in its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws...
...March of 1972, a black mother, Mrs. Tallulah Morgan, her kids and co-defendents, acting under legal counsel from Boston's assertive National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, charged the state, and specifically the Boston School Committee, with doing just that--denying her "Equal protection of the laws"--by willfully and deviously maintaining a segregated school system. (Over half the city's blacks attended almost all-black schools at the time; 84 per cent of the whites went to even more exclusively white institutions.) Two legal precedents, and the quarter century of struggle for civil rights enlightment behind...
...Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, finally served the death warrant to "separate but equal" facilities for black people, coming to the reasonable conclusion that separation is intrinsically unequal because it "generated a feeling of inferiority (among blacks) as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone...
...bored and wouldn't mind riding around in taxis on an expense account all day." The members receive no salary, which excludes citizens without sufficient support elsewhere, while the committee is elected city-wide, preventing the city's 17 per cent black population from winning political strength equal to their 34 percent representation among Boston students...
...eliminate outmoded practices that cause discontent." Henceforth, coloreds and Asians will be allowed to set up businesses in all industrial areas of the country and engage in trade outside their residential ghettos. They will also be able to serve on boards of racially mixed unions, and have been promised equal opportunity with whites in the civil service. Most of the rioting coloreds, however, are students with little Interest in improved business conditions-and nothing at all was conceded by the government to the blacks...