Word: segregationism
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In the end, the players will probably prevail, because they are blessed with the ultimate edge: the gift-from-the-gods talent to hit and throw a baseball better than anyone else in the world. No one in his right mind would spend a beautiful August Saturday in the bleachers...
"It was a blow to a southern white culture rooted in the dim and dark days of slavery," Chatfield said of the decision, which banned segregation in public schools.
The central argument of the report, entitled "Slipping Towards Segregation," is that the policies of a school district undergoing integration on its own--that is, without order from court decisions or explicit laws--may have limited effects on demographic change.
The report said such policies may not prevent pockets of segregation and poverty.
The 40th anniversary of brown v. board of education on May 17 unleashed a torrent of earnest commentary on the nation's op-ed pages. Story after story deplored America's lack of racial progress since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down segregation with that landmark decision. Somehow all the...