Word: segregationism
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EPIC’s petition to end segregation at Woolworth’s lunch counters similarly caught the public eye, thanks to the signatures of Eleanor Roosevelt and Harvard faculty members such as Arthur M. Schlesinger and Oscar Handlin.
A reporter supposedly once asked the legendary criminal Willie Sutton why he robbed banks. "Because that’s where the money is," the gangster replied. A similar answer could be given to anyone who questions why women continue to frequent the clubs that exclude them: that’s...
One place to look for answers is Harvard’s peer institutions, Princeton and Yale, both of which possess old, powerful, exclusive social clubs that integrated about two decades ago. These schools’ students do not seem to spend their time pining for the single-sex days of...
But somehow, these facts have been submerged and twisted into a narrative in which Israel is a violator of human rights. Israel is an oasis of freedom in a desert of tyranny and oppression. In most of the Middle East, women still lack equality and face segregation in universities and...
It’s ironic that age segregation at college goes largely unquestioned, given that this reality in other parts of society is so contentious. Age segregation among the elderly is a source of serious debate; the question of whether retirement communities prevent social integration is a contentious one. Although...