Word: segregationism
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Randomization has a history dating back to the 1920s, when President A. Lawrence Lowell, class of 1877, wrote that an unfortunate segregation would result from students being able to choose their own houses. Lowell envisioned each house as a microcosm of the College, and not as small, separate institutions with...
In Georgia, a group including alums of the state university system are suing in federal court to eliminate an affirmative action plan that they say discriminates without effectively remedying segregation at the university's campuses.
What Reagan neglected to mention was that in 1947, segregation, racism, and racial animosity was the "American way of life." Although today things have obviously improved on the field, baseball's management is still reflective of that "American way of life" that Reagan referred to. With people like Campanis (Robinson...
A year ago, TIME devoted a cover story to the nation's abandonment of its four-decades-long struggle to desegregate its educational system. "The combination of legal revisionism and residential segregation," we wrote, "is effectively ending America's bold attempt to integrate the public schools." This month the Harvard...
The dehumanizing practice of legalized segregation is gone, but the de facto segregation of the American community persists. In fact, the reason the three white teens beat Lenard Clark is that he had transgressed the bounds of tacit segregation that many whites in Bridgeport are trying to enforce. After carrying...