Word: redressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than they had achieved in any year since the end of the Civil War. A speedup in school integration in the South brought to 1,141 the number of desegregated school districts. In the North, city after city re-examined de facto school segregation and set up plans to redress the balance. In 300 cities in the South, public facilities-from swimming pools to restaurants-were integrated, and in scores of cities across the nation, leaders established biracial committees as a start toward resolving local inequities...
...Does a confessed murderer have any redress when his court-appointed lawyer refuses to represent him on appeal? He does indeed, ruled a Tokyo court. Katsumi Ohnishi had been sentenced to death for poisoning his parents and stealing their savings, then butchering two strangers for their identity papers. When Lawyer Toichi Yasutomi was appointed to handle Murderer Ohnishi's appeal, he asked to be replaced because he was convinced that Ohnishi's crime was hideous and that the sentence was just. Months later, all appeals lost, in a last gesture of defiance the convicted criminal sued the respected...
...single program at Harvard or elsewhere can redress a balance between scholarship and pedagogy that has long been missing. But a start should be made at many levels. Individual Faculty members can demand excellence in teaching, in themselves and in course assistants equally. Departments can watch their teaching fellows-and their instructors and assistant professors-closely, and let them know that teaching ability will count heavily in recommendations for advancement. Finally, the Corporation can make enthusiasm for, and ability in, teaching a firm prerequisite for appointment to the tenured ranks...
...majority opinion, handed down by Chief Judge Elbert P. Tuttle of the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and District Judge Lewis R. Morgan, was based on the Civil Rights Act of 1870, which gives district courts jurisdiction over civil actions by individuals seeking redress of denial of their constitutional rights by a state or its officials. In his dissent, District Judge J. Robert Elliott, a Kennedy appointee with a past record of pro-segregation views, held that a federal court should not interfere in proceedings before state courts...
...upon sympathizers everywhere for a "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom." Representatives of different, often rival, organizations got together, fired out to state and local representatives volley after volley of handbooks, bulletins, press releases, charts, schedules, visceral warnings and soul-stirring exhortations. Said one broadside: "We march to redress old grievances and to help resolve an American crisis born of the twin evils of racism and deprivation." The march organizers listed the demands that the parade would symbolize. Among them: 1) passage of the Kennedy Administration's civil rights legislative package-"without compromise or filibuster"; 2) integration...