Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Because Kefauver represented Tennessee and shared the predominating views of that state on segregation, he was not a Progressive Democrat on civil rights legislation; he spent his greatest energy defending the Tennessee Valley Authority from the clutches of private interest, much as other Southern senators would champion tobacco, cotton or...
I'm writing this letter from 10 block segregation. I was placed here early Sunday morning. The charges against me are completely untrue. I'm neither surprised nor discouraged. I welcome their attempts to intimidate and harass me--it can't be done. God how these people hate me: I...
The book examines many of the social institutions which thrive on sexual segregation. Supplemented with Garry Trudeau's cartoons and extensive student comments, Schwartz and Lever undertake an entertaining, though generally facile ("The effects of the mixer on an individual can be destructive.") description of sexual patterns in an all...
Until recently, judicial rulings that schools must integrate were largely limited to the South, where Jim Crow laws long made segregation of the races in education a reality of life. Now some courts are declaring that segregation in the North must be dismantled as thoroughly as it was in the...
The Supreme Court is generally thought to be drifting toward the right, but last week four of its actions left liberals little cause for complaint. > Busing to promote integration in Southern school districts was approved unanimously by the court last term. The rationale: busing is sometimes necessary and constitutionally proper...