Word: segregationism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Eight months after the 63-year-old Chief Justice arrived on the bench, the court disturbed the peace of Ike's first term by handing down its historic decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which overturned rulings going back to 1896 and required an end to de jure...
John Lewis, 34, dreamed of becoming a Baptist minister as he grew up in Alabama's Pike County, but he changed direction when the Supreme Court declared segregation unconstitutional. As a civil rights worker, this apostle of nonviolence was frequently arrested and beaten. He headed the Student Nonviolent Coordinating...
SEX SEGREGATION. Compulsory segregation by sex is to be banned in both classes and school-funded extracurricular activities. Gone will be such hoary educational standbys as all-girl home-economics classes and all-boy shop classes, along with all-boy and all-girl phys.-ed or hygiene courses.
It is a different story with today's black middle class. Rather than being formed in segregation, they drew their inspiration from the civil rights movement, which destroyed legal segregation in America. This triumph imbued many blacks with a pride, confidence and political skill they had not known before...
Davis' rise is the culmination of the dreams of his grandfather, C.M. Harris, who at the turn of the century determined to carve out an economic niche that would shelter his descendants from segregation. He started a funeral home and later founded the Protective Industrial Insurance Co. of Alabama...