Word: integrationism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even in Mississippi, which by every statistic and standard will be the last state in the Union to give way to integration, there were some hopeful signs. Items:
Architectural Sciences: A failure of function and proportion, chaos and non-integration.
Elimination by the fraternities themselves of restrictive clauses from their by-laws has had little effect on membership practices, the study reveals. Although there remain today only two out of 61 national fraternities that retain restrictive clauses in their constitutions, this has failed "to produce significant racial and religious integration...
But is the work of the committee enough? Some church leaders outside the state note that few white ministers have dared to preach on integration. Thus church-building may be a face-saving operation that permits the clerics to avoid confronting the root issue.
Thomas Merton, the compleat bohemian who became a Trappist monk at 26, has carried on an astringent "dialogue with the world" ever since. In his 24 years as a member of Kentucky's Abbey of Gethsemani, he has built a seven-storey mountain of poems, autobiography, reflection and translation...