Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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"Make no mistake about it. Smith is a bloody ruthless man with opponents," warns a member of the white opposition. But Smith's most recent displays of ruthlessness have sharply reduced the options available to his government. White Rhodesians' insistence on racial segregation and Smith's vacillation and calculatedly divisive...
In Florida, Carter's share of the black vote was 70%; in North Carolina, 90%. Carter swept the black precincts in Chicago and other Illinois urban areas, and his only primary defeat-in Massachusetts-would have been far more crushing without his 40% share of the black vote in...
Among the candidates, Jackson is second only to George Wallace in his opposition to involuntary busing. A bill he has recently introduced in the Senate calls for the establishment of three-judge courts to decide all busing cases. Before they order busing, the judges would have to consider a variety...
Father James Earl Sr. was a resourceful farmer and small businessman, who was strict with his children and devoted to community mores, including racial segregation. But Carter's mother was something else: one of those doughty and durable women that the South produces among both races. It was "Miss Lillian...
Some 900 names are listed in the index, and in the course of pointing American history toward his climactic moment, Kluger strikes off a small Who's Who of black politics, including a remarkable group portrait of the Howard Law School graduates commanded by Thurgood Marshall. The Supreme Court...