Word: integrationism
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Misgivings about the sturdiness of basic go all the way up the ranks. As part of a review of the integration of women into the services, Defense Secretary William Cohen has ordered an outside panel to assess training in all four branches of the service. In the defense-authorization bill...
For the N.A.A.C.P. to revise its stance on integration is as likely as, say, the Sierra Club's changing its position on wilderness preservation. But the minority of N.A.A.C.P. members who believe that integration is undesirable or--in cities led by black elected officials--unnecessary will be casting a longer...
But these dissenting voices in the N.A.A.C.P. reflect a growing view in the broader African-American community that resources poured into desegregation might be better spent on improving the predominantly nonwhite schools most black children attend. In the past few years black school officials from Seattle, Washington, to the suburbs...
So when the New York Times reported that N.A.A.C.P. chairman Myrlie Evers-Williams expected the delegates to consider modifying the organization's position on integration, the news of an impending controversy became self-fulfilling. Evers-Williams, widow of the murdered civil rights leader Medgar Evers, maintains she was misquoted. "Any...
Jenkins has suggested that Yonkers and the N.A.A.C.P. put the battle behind them, sit down as partners and try to figure out how to improve public education for everybody. "This thing is not working," he says. "The idea is not to make bus companies rich. The idea is to enrich...