Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Are school boards constitutionally obliged to remedy school segregation caused by housing patterns? No, implied the Supreme Court last spring when it refused to review a lower-court decision permitting the Gary, Ind., board to ignore de facto segregation. Are school boards constitutionally empowered to remedy de facto if they...
Last week, while children bawled and mothers screamed defiance, police hauled the demonstrators off to criminal court after a melee that stunned the nation's biggest school system. The demonstrators were old hands: members of Parents and Taxpayers (P.A.T.), the white organization that staged a massive citywide school boycott...
Before the election in November, however, Democratic Governor Bert Combs issued an executive order outlawing segregation in businesses licensed by the state. Breathitt's Republican opponent, Louis Nunn, attacked him on this issue vigorously. Still Breathitt's polls showed him leading Nunn with 58 per cent up until election day...
"There are a few brave souls and some who follow these brave souls, but many are scared," one Philadelphia civil rights worker said. "Lots of people don't even know what equal rights are. This is the worst I've seen of the effects which segregation has had on the...
(3 of 11) judicial blow after another against state-enforced segregation, thus fueling the civil rights revolution and prodding Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Up for decision this term: the act's controversial public-accommodations title and the potentially combustible issue of antimiscegenation laws.