Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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By no means is all school segregation in the Deep South, and last May's decision has been followed by many significant steps, most of them taken by local school boards. Among the changes:
Delaware is split. Except for one school district (Dover), the two southern counties have done little toward desegregation. Eight school districts in New Castle, the state's northern county, have varying plans to end segregation gradually. Wilmington pupils in the first six grades will be mixed this month; in...
Maryland's rural counties have done nothing yet to end segregation, but Baltimore city officials say they will end segregation in all of the city's 198 grade and high schools this month.
Kansas, where nine cities have segregation under a local option law, is ready to comply with the Supreme Court. The segregated cities, such as Topeka. plan to integrate their schools over a two-year period.
It is customary for the attorneys general of the 48 states to invite the Attorney General of the U.S. to speak at their yearly meeting. But Georgia's Attorney General Eugene Cook, this year's president of the National Association of Attorneys General, announced last June that he...