Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thomas F. Pettigrew, associate professor of Social Relations, said yesterday that the Federal Court ruling against de facto segregation in Springfield schools would be a "powerful precedent" for a similar lawsuit in Boston.
The NAACP is presently considering filing suit against the Boston School Committee for de facto segregation in city schools.
U.S. District Court Judge George Sweeney ruled last week that the racial imbalance in Springfield schools constitutes de facto segregation and must be corrected by April 30, 1965. He held the School Committee responsible for ending racial imbalance in eight public schools. Whenever the non-white enrollment exceeds 50 per...
In the Senate, too, the Democrats staged a relatively minor North-South clash. Louisiana's Russell Long, 46, wanted to replace Vice President-elect Hubert Humphrey as majority whip-even though Huey Long's son has a notable record of anti-Administration votes, including t hose against medicare...
Dr. King sees four plateaus within a skyward spiral of interracial progress. Down at the bottom is slavery, initiated in 1619 with the first shipment of African captives to the New World. Next comes segregation, a phase begun with the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863--"slavery obscured by the niceties of...