Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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RACE. Here the experts feel that there will be little retreat. Last spring's authorization of busing in once-segregated Southern school districts was unanimous, and the principle of social equality seems too firmly established both in legislation and in the court's long line of constitutional interpretations since 1954...
Twice chairman of the Boston school committee, Mrs. Hicks retains her reputation as the staunchest opponent of busing to end de facto segregation, a position that accounted for much of her support in 1967. Now the feeling is that her day-and the era of her particular appeal-may have...
Cracks are gradually appearing in many of the petty forms of segregation with which apartheid has been buttressed. In Durban, the city council recently threw a multiracial cocktail party. In Johannesburg, a few adventurous whites have begun to take black friends to restaurants and bars; they are often stared at...
According to popular conception, the prisoner is always a man in segregation. Forced aloneness is seen as the punishment he pays for his crimes. A soul on ice, he goes to the penitentiary to seek a personal absolution. In the spare quiet of his cell, isolated from his fellow men...
The words were Chief Justice Earl Warren's in the 1954 Supreme Court decision that outlawed public school segregation. Now the Brown decision has taken on fresh legal currency for another deprived group-the estimated 1,200,000 school-age children who are classified as retarded. In many school...