Word: segregationism
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"Gandhi's followers challenged me, sometimes in the direct form of "Why have you never gone to jail against segregation laws?" Wofford says.
"The country was in the middle of a very broadand deep evil," Boston Globe columnist Thomas N.Oliphant '67 says. "Public opinion...had swungtotally against segregation."
At a typical Red Sox home game, fewer than one percent of the fans are Black. Kenneth M. Richman '90 discovered this fact in researching his senior thesis, "Not Even in the Ballpark: Low Black Baseball Spectatorship and the Sources of Social Segregation."
Three years ago, a federal appeals court called for a major desegregation effort. But the Supreme Court overturned that order on the ground that the schools' racial makeup reflects "demographic shifts" the school board could not control. In cases in which segregation is not the result of actions by local...
RACE RELATIONS. Arkansas was once almost synonymous with segregation; President Eisenhower in 1957 had to call out the National Guard to protect black students admitted to Central High School in Little Rock over the opposition of Governor Orval Faubus. Clinton has sought with some success to bring blacks into the...