Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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·ON NONCONFORMITY (1963): This hour in history needs a dedicated circle of transformed nonconformists. Dangerous passions of pride, hatred and selfishness are enthroned in our lives; truth lies prostrate on the rugged hills of nameless Calvaries. The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the...
"Given the present trend, nearly all our major cities will soon have black or near black majorities, while whites move out to the suburbs in increasing numbers," Chester W. Hartman, assistant professor of City Planning, told a crowd of nearly 500 earlier in the day. "There are not many who...
Before packing to go home, the general assembly demolished a passel of passé prohibitions: Virginia's ancient predilection for pay-as-you-go budgetary procedures; the inviolability of the state constitution; a ban on sales of liquor by the drink; an end to billing poll-tax payments; an...
Second, the Olympic Committee must consider whether this country would appear ludicrous condemning South Africa's policies in light of the recently-published Riot Commission report: "Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white--separate and unequal . . . Discrimination and segregation have long permeated much of American life...
> EDUCATION. Racial discrimination and de facto segregation should be fought vigorously by invoking civil rights laws and by rewarding cooperative schools with substantial federal aid. Federal support also should be increased for adult-education programs to eliminate illiteracy, to "dramatically" improve schools in the ghetto and poverty areas, and to...