Word: segregationism
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Q. You were elected Governor of Alabama four times. At your first inauguration in 1963, you uttered your most memorable lines: "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever." Why did you say that?
Nearly 40 years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregation in our nation's school is unconstitutional. Nearly 40 years later, a national school movement is seeking to integrate the faculties of our nation's law schools. Harvard Law School Coalition for Civil rights, et. al v. president and...
Sanders Theatre is a cavernous, Gothic space, where Harvard undergraduates have, through the years, come quietly to listen to tweedy poets like T.S. Eliot, John Ashbery and Seamus Heaney. But the scene on Feb. 6 was dramatically different. At 8 p.m., Jeffries, his flowing white robes and black and gold...
Cole's argument is that Black students, particularly Black women, flock to this course and, thus, not to a course on Dante (his example). Social segregation between Black and white students, he contends, is reinforced by intellectual and academic self-segregation. Moreover, a Core education should include texts chosen "by...
In both cases, policy is backed only by irrationality and fear. Black soldiers were untrustworthy or incompetent. White troops wouldn't get along with them. On July 26, 1948, President Truman exposed the faulty logic and ended the military's segregation of Black troops.