Word: segregationism
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LITTLE ROCK: President Clinton Thursday paid tribute to the nine students who ran a gauntlet of violent bigotry to break the chains of segregation at Little Rock?s Central High School, saying they ?gave up their innocence so that all good people could have a chance to live their dream...
Given that, the book argues, the law should have gone no further than the civil rights acts of 1964 and 1965 and the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education case. Had reform ended there, the Thernstroms say, the American people would have done away with de facto segregation...
But more than the acting or directing, it's Wallace's story that fuels the film. Staying away from the personal life of a man who wasn't particularly interested in his own (his kids barely appear in the film), the story focuses solely on Wallace's political career. Opening...
But these dissenting voices in the N.A.A.C.P. reflect a growing view in the broader African-American community that resources poured into desegregation might be better spent on improving the predominantly nonwhite schools most black children attend. In the past few years black school officials from Seattle, Washington, to the suburbs...
Connerly's life, a Horatio Alger tale of an orphan's adversity, pluck and triumph, has an almost mythical value to his supporters. He was born in Louisiana, where his parents divorced when he was two (he hasn't seen his father since) and his mother died when he was...