Word: racially
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would retire in January 2000 following a 36-year career on the School Committee and then the City Council. "Term limits have finally reached me," Duehay joked. In his career, Duehay dealt with many of the major problems the city has confronted in the past four decades--including racial unrest and student protest in the 1960s and the housing tumult following the loss of rent control in a statewide referendum in 1994. Duehay said he believes there has been a substantial improvement in town-gown relations during his time in office...
...also been a vocal opponent of amulticultural student center--once widely soughtafter by leaders of minorityorganizations--because he said he feared separatespaces would lead to racial separatism...
During the placid 1950s, while GI Bill benefits spurred an increasingly diversified applicant pool, racial inequality was a problem to be seen, but not heard...
...Crimson article, written as part of a larger series tackling the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education school segregation decision, perhaps typifies the racial attitudes of the times. The article, headlined "Only Individual Bias Exists at Harvard," concluded that, "all in all, Harvard's admissions policy for Negroes is an non-discriminatory as the University itself is to Negroes studying here...
...Selective admissions," once a euphemism for racial discrimination, now meant the admissions committee could spend time and money on the vigorous solicitation of potential minority applicants...