Word: segregationism
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After two decades of progress toward integration, the separation of black children in America's schools is on the rise and is in fact approaching the levels of 1970, before the first school bus rolled at the order of a court. Nationally, fully a third of black public school students...
This historic reversal has been welcomed by many in the African-American community. In some cities--Denver, for example--the dismantling of mandatory desegregation has been initiated by black leaders, since it is often black children who bear the brunt of such plans--forced to travel long distances to schools...
But the thin disguise endured for a half-century, until a series of school-segregation cases culminating in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. "Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal" and violate the Constitution's equal-protection guarantee, a unanimous Supreme Court ruled on May 17, 1954. A year...
Busing broke the back of segregation in the South, where 36.4% of black students attended majority-white schools by 1972. But Chief Justice Warren Burger's opinion in Swann also opened the door for the federal courts to get out of the integration business. Once legally enforced segregation was eliminated...
Across many campuses in America, there are sharp racial divisions. It is common to walk into dining halls of colleges all over the country and find blacks sitting in one area and whites in another. The civil rights acts of the 1960s and the movement that fueled them were attempts...