Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many parents had reportedly been frightened by Attorney General Edward W. Brooke's statement Monday that the Stayout--planned as a protest against alleged de facto segregation--would be "unlawful."
Rising Offensive. By short-term accounting, boycotts have won nothing whatever. The Boston boycott last June was sparked by the refusal of the city's school-committee chairwoman even to recognize the existence of segregation. Result: whites overwhelmingly re-elected her last November. Chicago's huge (225,000...
Tocsin will now explore such problems as segregation and unemployment, concentrating on their relation to the arms industry and to other economic and vested political interests that the group feels might shape foreign policy decisions. Action is now being planned in areas as different as American policy in Viet Nam...
When he considers the problem of de jacto segregation, however, Daley's tone changes and so do his ideas. He thinks a "betterment of human relations" is the greatest problem facing the city, and looks to a few integrated communities as the examples which others in the city must follow...
The contradiction between his general support of comprehensive planning and his invocation of local decision making in the touchy question of de facto segregation demonstrates Daley's extreme sensitivity to political pressure. Although there does not seem any contradiction to him, his opponents charge that his failure to act on...