Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hobson grew up in segregation's heartland, Birmingham, the son of a shopkeeper and a schoolteacher. As a pilot in World War II, he flew 35 missions over Europe and won three Bronze Stars. After the war he earned an engineering degree at Alabama's Tuskegee Institute and...
At first college administrators treated voluntary self-segregation by black students as a necessary but temporary phase. They said that poor youngsters from ghettos needed to gain self-confidence before entering the mainstream of college life. That change has happened on some campuses-Harvard and Oberlin, specifically, report very little...
Conflict. For the sake of campus peace, white administrators seem willing to tolerate a quiet separation of the races. They take satisfaction in the absence of open racial conflict, and they predict that self-segregation will go away by itself, though Elliot Soloman, a white junior at Columbia, points out...
Such acquiescence is castigated by Psychologist Kenneth Clark, the only black member of New York State's Board of Regents, as "benign violation of the law-and I am not sure how benign it really is." Indeed, self-segregation does violate at least the spirit of federal laws, yet...
Not everyone has given up the effort to stop racial separatism. In Philadelphia, for example, the N.A.A.C.P. threatens to sue the University of Pennsylvania to stop its W.E.B. DuBois Residence Hall from excluding whites. In New York, State Commissioner of Education Ewald Nyquist, who argues that "voluntary segregation is just...