Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The Graduate School of Education undertook a study of Pittsburgh's secondary schools in September 1965 at the request of the city's Board of Education. The Board was about to embark on a new secondary school building program (the last high school in the city was constructed in 1927...
The most extreme racial segregation occurs in Westinghouse, which is 92.9 per cent Negro, Herron Hill, which is 99.8 per cent Negro, and Fifth Avenue, which is 92.9 per cent Negro and in several high schools which are virtually all-white.
Moreover, most of the secondary buildings are large enough to accommodate the assembly of services and equipment necessary to provide a broad range of courses appropriate to children in grades 5 through 8. Of course, assignment of the middle school children to those existing buildings must be done in a...
Glowing Goal. In lone dissent, Justice John M. Harlan (grandfather of the present justice) argued that the whole spirit of the amendment was positive: that it ordered states to provide equal access to public facilities of all kinds. But the court then saw the amendment as merely a curb on...
More a Messiah. Up against Judge Cannon's immovability came Father Groppi, who is the assistant pastor of St. Boniface's, a church with an almost all-Negro congregation in the heart of the city's "Inner Core," or black ghetto. The priest has made the Negro...