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Lawyer Nixon carefully reviewed the judicial decisions involving desegregation, beginning with the Supreme Court's historic 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling. He concluded that where segregation exists de jure, by law or manipulation by authorities, the impediments must be removed. "There is a constitutional mandate that dual school systems and other forms of de jure segregation be eliminated totally," he said. Even in those cases, however, he argued that school boards should have some flexibility to meet their special problems. Where segregation exists de facto, as a result of housing patterns, the Supreme Court...
What effect would Nixon's pronouncement have on segregation now? Most experts agreed that since Nixon stuck to existing court decisions, the results would be greatest in the rural South, where de jure segregation persists in some areas. Once that ended, so would all school segregation there, since residential segregation is negligible. In larger Southern cities, the consequence could be a marked slowdown in desegregation, since putting an end to de jure segregation alone would still leave neighborhood schools reflecting the extensive housing segregation of the urban South. In such cases, where there is both de jure...
Despite that faith, the U.S. has patently failed to provide millions of young blacks with anything approaching equal education. Much of the white South still defends de jure segregation, which the Supreme Court outlawed 16 years ago as "inherently unequal." Much of the North perpetuates de facto segregation, which, as President Nixon pointed out in his school desegregation statement last week, the court has not yet taken up. Meantime, scores of urban public schools have become black disaster areas. Invaded by crime and drugs, run by frightened teachers who regard most of their students as enemies, more and more black...
...attack zoning in the courts. His first target is the affluent town of Oyster Bay on Long Island's North Shore, where he is advising the N.A.A.C.P. in preparing a lawsuit. His charge: "Land use control has been used to create a segregated society-one of de jure, not just de facto, segregation...
...East Germans want West Germany to grant them full diplomatic recognition so that their part of Germany may take its place as a full-fledged sovereign nation in the world community. Brandt is willing to grant de jure recognition to East Germany-but with two important reservations. In accord with his formula of two German "states" within one "nation," he maintains that the Federal Republic will never regard the German Democratic Republic as a foreign country. He also holds that Germans of both countries will always share a common citizenship. Moreover, before he will consider granting diplomatic recognition to East...