Word: segregationism
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There are few better measures of how tortuous the journey toward racial equality has become since 1954, when the Supreme Court struck down segregation, than the history of last week's ruling in Sheff v. O'Neill. The case was filed in the state courts in 1989 because civil rights...
Connecticut's Supreme Court broke important new ground last week by ruling that school segregation violates the state's constitution, no matter what caused it. But the shocking thing about the ruling was the knee-jerk reaction of elected officials like Attorney General Richard Blumenthal. "There will be many who...
DIED. ELBERT TUTTLE, 98, former chief judge of the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals whose unflinching, pivotal civil rights rulings in the 1960s helped dismantle Southern segregation; in Atlanta. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1981.
"If the young men entering college were allowed to choose their Houses, those coming from the same school, or from schools of the same type and from similar early surroundings, would naturally select the same House; and thus there would be a segregation among the Houses on the basis of...
Students suggest that self-segregation is a sign of deeper institutional problems, and that randomization only permits the administration to ignore larger issues.