Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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>Brown v. Board of Education (1954), which outlawed school segregation and overturned the separate-but-equal doctrine that a prior court approved in 1896. Despite Southern outcries, said Craig, "Chief Justice Warren was quick to realize that the Constitution must forever remain a living, flexible document, able to be expanded...
He condemned Southerners who claim that the Supreme Court school segregation decision "can be relitigated in every school district in the country to see if the Supreme Court has changed its mind on the racial question.."
Mrs. Zellner called the COFO project "unprecedented." She said it was "the first time segregation has been attacked from so many angles by so many people."
The Ford Foundation last week announced a $0.3 million grant to the Ed School to finance a thorough study of the effects of de facto segregation in northern schools. While the investigation will obviously cover the school systems of many northern cities, there is some question whether Boston's will...
Until now, the Boston School Committee has consistently refused to allow any such study although action by the Massachusetts Department of Education finally produced a tabulation of the school population by race a month ago. The size of the Ford award should insure a careful and complete investigation, and the...