Word: inferiority
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very little discrimination in the admission of Negroes in our outstanding universities and colleges today, there are still mighty few Negroes in evidence on many of our finest campuses. The channels of communication are weak. Very few Negroes apply. So long as a large part of all Negroes attend inferior schools, they cannot hold their own in the objective college entrance examination. And of course, lower Negro incomes mean that fewer Negro families can afford the heavy expense of higher education. Our colleges and universities should step up their active search for Negro applicants...
Looking back, there is not much doubt that New York City's Board of Education should have built its new In termediate School 201 somewhere else than right in the middle of darkest East Harlem. The Supreme Court ruled twelve years ago that segregated education is inferior education, and I.S. 201 never had any real possibility of being integrated. But there the school is-the city's finest, an architectural gem and potentially an academic joy. Common sense might seem to suggest accepting this separate-but-better education. Instead, many parents of I.S. 201 schoolchildren decided...
...that a great deal more will have to be done if future riots are to be prevented. Watts has no hospital, only one public swimming pool and no movie theater. In the midst of one of the nation's best school systems, its schools are congested and inferior. The job of getting to the roots of poverty has fallen largely on state and federal agencies and private industry, which together have created perhaps 12,000 jobs for South Los Angeles Negroes since the Watts riots. For what remains wrong with Watts, Sam Yorty gets much of the blame...
Separate Doors. Under Verwoerd's apartheid laws, the "non-Europeans" are constantly reminded of a permanent inferior status. They are forbidden to ride in white trains, buses or taxis, to use white public restrooms, attend white churches, send their children to white schools, even to sit on park benches bearing the insulting words Slegs vir blankes (For whites only). They may spend their money in white stores and invest in the stock market, but to mail a letter they must enter the post office through a separate door and buy their stamps at a separate window. "South Africa," says...
...There can be no superior party or inferior party nor a party that gives guidance and a party that receives guidance. No one country or party can serve as the center of the world revolution or the leading party...