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...followed the events in Mississippi closely. Parents in the more than 500 Southern school districts scheduled to desegregate by next fall studied their Mississippi counterparts for a clue to their own future behavior. Parents and officials in Northern cities, several of which are also under pressure to end de facto school segregation (see following story), watched to see if integration could be made to work. For both groups, the auguries were unpromising...
Shortage of Remedies. The Federal Government has done little to remedy the situation, partly because it has few legal weapons with which to fight. "There has been no court decision to my knowledge that you have to break up a de facto segregated school district," says Attorney General John Mitchell. The Justice Department also lacks the physical means to move against segregation in the North. There are only 21 lawyers, including supervisory personnel, in the Civil Rights Division's education section, and they must cover the South as well as the North. Nor is the Department of Health, Education...
...affirmed Traynor's opinion, and in 1968 Congress outlawed racial discrimination in most U.S. housing. An earlier Traynor opinion may some day prove equally prescient for the nation. Almost seven years ago, he joined his court in ordering California school boards to take positive action to end de facto racial segregation in schools, even if such segregation is caused only by housing patterns. Only a handful of Northern state legislatures have yet gone that...
Miller said after the rally that the University makes no money on its real estate around the Med School. The value of the land increases every year without a proportional increase in rent, he said, so Harvard is actually engaged in "de facto subsidization" of the housing...
...York Times, which for years shied from the word homosexual, in June permitted a homosexual writing under his own name, Freelance Critic Donn Teal, to contribute an article on "gay" themes in theater. In large cities, homosexuals have reached tacit agreements with police that give them the de facto right to their own social life...