Word: facto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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School systems complying with the Supreme Court decision can still maintain de facto, if not legal, segregation. The decision, it must be remembered, did not require integration; it merely condemned compulsory segration...
Some Negro teachers tend--unrealistically--to softpedal this aspect of the problem. They feel it will be a long time before real integration becomes a fact. In the meantime, limited integration, or de facto segregation will essentially preserve the status quo until Negro education improves to the point where it will equal the standards of that offered white students...
...forward the users' association plan in the most deliberately tentative terms, his speech studded with phrases such as "I suppose," "I would think," "I suggest." "What is it that we seek?" he asked. "It is nothing hostile to or prejudicial to Egypt" but "on a provisional, de facto practical operating basis, a measure of cooperation with Egypt." The association would hire pilots, collect and pay out tolls and fees. Membership, he said, "would not involve the assumption by any member of any obligation," though naturally "it would be hoped" members would voluntarily cooperate...
School systems complying with the Supreme Court decision can still maintain de facto, if not legal, segregation. The decision, it must be remembered, did not require integration; it merely condemned compulsory segration...
Some Negro teachers tend--unrealistically--to softpedal this aspect of the problem. They feel it will be a long time before real integration becomes a fact. In the meantime, limited integration, or de facto segregation will essentially preserve the status quo until Negro education improves to the point where it will equal the standards of that offered white students...