Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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On May 17, 1954, Chief Justice Earl Warren, speaking for a unanimous Supreme Court, found for the plaintiff in the case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. Brown was Linda, a cheerful, slightly plump, eleven-year-old Kansas schoolgirl who happened to be black. Halfway through his opinion...
Despite legal scholars' concern over the recent leap in supervisory activity by the federal courts-in such cases as the Penn Central bankruptcy and the integration of Boston schools and the Chicago police force-they remain convinced that the judges have little choice about enforcing the law. "Judges like...
Ritual pairings of the sexes seem less obligatory. Many hostesses no longer worry about having equal numbers of men and women at a dinner party. It is regarded as awkward, if not rude, to pair men and women at such occasions or to insist on "boy-girl" seating at the...
But Mayor Joan Poulos takes a relaxed view, suggesting that not every last area of sexual segregation has to be battered down. After all, some Davis women's groups, including the Soroptimists, continue to bar men. And, she notes, "no serious public business is conducted at Ro tary Club...
Since the federal courts began ordering Southern school systems to desegregate 20 years ago, white parents have been setting up their own private-and segregated-academies. In the past few years, court-ordered busing has accelerated this trend. Some 3,500 of these schools now operate in the South with...