Word: racial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democrat Weltner, 38, the victory of White Supremacist Lester Maddox in Georgia's Democratic runoff primary last month signaled a crushing setback for racial moderation-and for the South. Rather than support Maddox for Governor in the November election, Weltner last week jettisoned his promising career in Congress...
...consideration are two California Supreme Court decisions that threw out the voters' overwhelming approval of state constitutional amendments. When Californians went to the ballot box and banned pay TV, ruled the state court, they violated the First Amendment right of free expression. When they toppled laws barring racial discrimination in the sale or rental of private housing, said the court, their vote amounted to discriminatory "state action" that violated the equal-protection clause of the 14th Amendment. Now the nation's top court must decide whether to review those decisions or let them stand...
...When racial attitudes and economic interest conflict, "even the most committed stand-patter can suddenly come to see things in a new light," they wrote...
...Civil Rights Act says that desegregation "shall not mean the assignment of students to public schools in order to overcome racial imbalance." The obvious intent of Congress was to exempt de facto school segregation in the North, while seeing to it that federal funds were cut off from Southern school systems segregated by law. The Southerners maintain that schools back home are no longer segregated -- they are merely "racially imbalance," and "racial imbalance" in the South is just as legal as "racial imbalance" anywhere else...
...desegregation plans to work, that school districts should have a "substantial" number of Negroes in school with whites. The department has also asked that a start be made towards integrating teaching staffs, so that eventually no school in a system could be labelled Negro or white according to the racial composition of its staff...