Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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HERSCHEL H. FRIDAY, 49. "For once Nixon has not latched on to a raving incompetent " says Philip Kaplan, a civil rights attorney who has opposed Friday many times in court. "But still, he's the wrong man for the wrong job at the wrong time." Friday is a smiling...
In his decision on a complaint filed by the N.A.A.C.P. and a group of parents, Roth acknowledged that the vast Negro migration northward, as well as economic factors, was responsible for blacks settling in Detroit's ghettos. He also recognized that many blacks chose to live apart. Even so...
Evil Without Fault. Segregation has not only been maintained in Detroit, Roth went on to say; it has been actively pursued. The city has bused Negro children to predominantly black schools, but it has not bused whites to black schools. By continuing to build schools in the ghetto, it has...
At first glance, Detroit seemed to be an unlikely target for a suit against segregation because it has been less of an offender than most Northern cities-as Roth noted in his decision. Between 1966 and 1970, black teachers in the system increased from 31% to 42%. In the same...
That was the beginning of the breakdown. Once they got wind of the plan, many white parents reacted vigorously. They kept their children home from school and set up a Citizens' Committee for Better Education to fight the scheme. They probably would not have succeeded without black help. Discouraged...