Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Attack on De Facto While a series of U.S. Supreme Court decisions has struck down school segregation in the South, the North has remained largely untouched. The reason is that segregation was created by law in the South, whereas it was supposed to have resulted from circumstances in the North...
New Formula. Though the details remained secret, these terms were based on five key points: 1) Rhodesia's 5,000,000 Africans will be permitted to make "unimpeded progress" toward majority rule over a period of at least 30 years, 2) the Rhodesian legislature will pass no new laws...
Perhaps the most promising approach now gathering force is the so-called "voucher" plan. It would give parents certificates or vouchers good for a portion of the cost of educating their children. They could then cash in their tickets at any school that does not practice racial segregation. A law...
HOWEVER hard he tries, a President can rarely mold the Supreme Court to his ideological image. Richard Nixon may be an exception. With the appointment of only two Justices, he has already helped to blunt the judicial revolution that began in 1954, when Earl Warren wrote the court's...
The Burger Court has served notice that it will not retreat from the Warren Court's sweeping school desegregation manifestoes, at least so far as Southern de jure segregation is concerned. Last term it ordered Southern public schools to desegregate "at once." This term it told lower-court judges...