Word: holdouts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rate at which Southern school officials have stopped requiring black children to attend separate public schools. That gauge is too narrow, and may be unfair to the South, since the entire nation has failed the test. Now, finally, after more prodding from the Supreme Court, the last of the holdout school districts are under direct orders to desegregate. No one is certain just how they will react as Dixie's school bells signal the start of the new academic year, which in some cases will be next week. But last week President Richard Nixon dramatically flew into the South...
...Justice Department filed suit against 52 Southern districts to force them to abandon dual school systems by September. That would reduce the holdout districts in all of the South to only 70 of the area's 2,731. Similar suits against many of the 70 are expected to be filed promptly...
That left labor as the sole holdout. But union leaders also have to face elections, and they are aware that rank-and-file unionists rejected an unusually high number of contracts last year. Two weeks ago, the Canadian Labor Congress issued a statement turning down guidelines and arguing, not entirely without justification, that recession is now a greater worry than inflation...