Word: integrationism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In January 1966, a dozen years after the U.S. Supreme Court urged "all deliberate speed" in integrating Southern schools, only one of every 13 Negro children in the eleven states of the Old Confederacy was attending a school with white students. This record of non-compliance with the court order...
The trouble, the commission found, lay largely in the guidelines themselves. Francis Keppel, former U.S. Commissioner of Education, had allowed the districts to choose between two methods of integration. One, plainly subject to gerrymandering, would set up geographic boundaries within which all children, Negro and white, would attend the same...
The commission has now proposed a new federal law to outlaw such harassment, and has advised the Office of Education to refuse the free-choice option to districts that have failed to create a "climate conducive to acceptance of the law." Its report also urged the Government to explore new...
The audience then took over the meeting. They tried to pin him down on such issues as the state sales tax, party unity, the Massachusetts Crime Commission, federal aid to urban areas, corruption, and the integration of Boston's public schools.
Davis concedes that his church may not have done enough to encourage Negroes to join, and admits that National City should probably incorporate the poverty-stricken Twelfth Street Church. But he explains that church integration is fraught with subtle dangers, and must be done on a carefully controlled basis. "When...