Word: segregationism
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Occasionally, however, one comes along that recalls the heroic scope and seriousness, if not the air time, of a vanishing breed. Separate but Equal, a two-part ABC movie, portrays the events leading up to the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 decision outlawing segregation in public schools. Sidney Poitier, in...
For decades, South Africa's policy of apartheid has rested upon a set of rigid laws reserving 87% of the land for the nation's white minority and requiring strict housing segregation. Last week President F.W. de Klerk introduced legislation that would repeal all racial restrictions on land ownership and...
Shilts said that the military's 1981 official justification for barring homosexuals from service closely resembles a similar position used in 1942 to justify racial segregation.
AND JUST WHAT are these hypo-crisies that I sought to bring to bear? We are expected not to "vocalize" but simply "tolerate" the fact that certain courses--such as my hypothetical engineering course that accepted only Asians--simply do not represent the diversity that Harvard boasts. This was not...
What a difference a year makes. Exactly 12 months ago, President F.W. de Klerk stunned his country by opening Parliament with a pledge to legalize the militantly antiapartheid African National Congress and release A.N.C. leader Nelson Mandela from jail. With those milestones behind him, De Klerk surpassed expectations again last...