Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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So this case is to be presented before the Supreme Court. Twenty years after the court (in Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka) declared segregation by law to be unconstitutional, the court is again faced with a decision that touches at the foundations of American society. Is a desegregated system...
His country roots-he is the son of a small-town public school superintendent-gave rise to an aggressive candor that takes priority over personal status or popular trends. "I represent some of the biggest cruds in Florida," he cheerfully told a Senate subcommittee. Back in the '50s, he...
Sanday therefore argues that it is not race but class that influences IQ. She points out that "IQs are simply a measure of what you need to do well in the mainstream culture of white middle-class America." Because many blacks are excluded from this mainstream by racial prejudice and...
The only reason for racial discrimination is the fact that it is either directly imposed by the government, as under the various segregation statutes that used to exist in the south, or in another way, without discrimination being intended, as the byproduct of the whole mixed-economy welfare state. Virtually...
Reisman: The main thing to remember about this period before the New Deal is that at this time still approximately 90 per cent of the Negro population was living in the South. In the South there were open segregation laws--it could impose segregation both by explicit legislation and by...