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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least of the region's assets are the Ibos themselves. Early contact with Christian missionaries gave them more savvy in Western techniques than other tribes. Forced by a land shortage in the East to seek a livelihood in other regions, they usually settled in tribal enclaves, invested their earnings and established powerful tribal associations. When Nigeria became independent in 1960, the Ibos controlled most of the black-owned businesses. When the British left, they stepped into top posts in universities, business houses and the civil service. But the Ibos have usually been resented, especially by the Hausa Moslems...
...have resigned from office in the past three years, many of them to marry. With Vatican permission, a handful of the married clergy have been allowed to remain in their pastoral posts, and this month the bishops set up a "halfway house" to counsel priests who have decided to seek laicization...
Neurotic Reasons. Riesman and Jencks doubt that the majority of Negro colleges will ever achieve significant student integration. The only whites many can attract are those who attend them "for a mixture of idealistic, exploratory and neurotic reasons." At the same time, white colleges increasingly seek out the best Negro students, contributing further to the decline of the Negro schools. Yet these institutions will not die, say the authors, if only because they "give an otherwise unattainable sense of importance to their trustees, administrators, faculty and alumni...
...federal district court last week ordered the state board of education to integrate all public schools by next fall. The unanimous decision by a three-judge panel marks the first time that an entire state has been put under injunction to desegregate. Previously, civil rights organizations have had to seek rulings against individual school districts. Despite years of bitter court litigation, only 19 of Alabama's 118 school boards have been explicitly enjoined to end segregation in their schools...
...school buildings and equipment is $607 for each white student, only $295 for every Negro pupil. The court order allows every student to enroll in the school of his choice starting next fall and implies that punitive action will be taken against state and school board officials who seek to evade the ruling. It also tosses out as unconstitutional a state law under which tuition grants of $185 a year have been given to white students so that they could attend segregated private schools rather than public schools the courts have ordered to integrate...