Word: ribicoffs
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...into battlefields," she said. "We really have to go back to quality education and put our emphasis on that." Hubert Humphrey, on the other hand, charged that the Nixon Administration had "sold out" black Americans and was in "full retreat on the civil rights front." Connecticut's Senator Abraham Ribicoff, whose Senate speech denouncing "rampant racism" and "monumental hypocrisy" in the North had led to the first Southern congressional victories on civil rights issues in over a decade, said he had no regrets. "I'm damn glad I made that speech," he said. "I've touched a soft nerve...
...Ribicoff speech put new life into last-gasp efforts by such segregationists as Senator John Stennis and Representative Jamie Whitten of Mississippi and North Carolina's Representative Charles Jonas. By playing on the racial guilt and fears of the North, they were able to muster passage in one house of amendments that seek to 1) require federal desegregation policies to be applied uniformly throughout the nation, 2) permit freedom-of-choice plans to suffice everywhere, and 3) ban compulsory busing of students to achieve integration. Although the Senate last week nullified the antibusing legislation and killed the freedom-of-choice...
...they consider their long persecution had ended. The Stennis amendment declares that the guilt of segregation is nationwide -which is certainly true-and so the penalties for failing to desegregate must apply to Northern cities, with their ghettos, as well as the South. Connecticut's liberal Senator Abraham Ribicoff astonished both segregationists and civil rights advocates by agreeing with Stennis and backing the amendment. Doing so, Ribicoff broke the liberal lines and introduced a new logic...
...virtually impossible enforcement problem in many cities, whereas the de jure segregation of the South could legally be broken down. If the Stennis amendment became official policy, it would stretch the Justice Department's enforcement resources so thin that desegregation would be markedly slowed down. The Stennis-Ribicoff logic suggests that school integration cannot occur unless and until all U.S. society changes-so that the classroom would become not the first but the last place to integrate. If anything is to change according to this formula, integration must occur in such fields as jobs and housing-and it remains...
ONLY 25 minutes away from Manhattan lies Mount Vernon, N.Y., a highly segregated suburb of 80,000 people, divided starkly into black and white worlds by an east-west railroad track. It could well be the kind of community that Senator Ribicoff had in mind when he complained of racial hypocrisy in the North...