Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The survey was run by Psychologists Kenneth B. Clark (whose studies of segregation bolstered the 1954 Supreme Court school decision) and Lawrence Plotkin, who both teach at City College of New York. Their chief conclusion is that colleges ought to weigh entrance-exam scores less for Negroes because the tests...
The Negro ghetto in Boston--the "black boomerang" in Roxbury--continues to grow, and today a significantly larger part of the Comfonwealth's Negro citizens live in this area than did a dozen years ago. These people must spend more money for poorer housing than other citizens and their children...
But these measures can only end housing segregation to a limited degree. Most Negroes cannot afford to move to the suburbs. These people are not about to move into areas now inhabited by whites, unless such areas are adjacent to the ghetto. No one has yet found a way to...
The recommendations in the Committee's report deal, necessarily, only with the pernicious effects of housing segregation. To improve the condition of buildings in the ghetto, the legislature might pass a law (like one in New York) enabling the city to collect rents on sub-standard dwellings and to use...
None of these actions constitutes a solution of the problems created by housing segregation among lower-income Negroes; at best, each of them can only improve conditions in the ghetto. To solve the problems of neighborhood segregation in Boston, as in other Northern cities, public officials and private citizens must...