Word: segregationism
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When we last left the civil rights movement, at the end of the 1987 PBS documentary series Eyes on the Prize, it had just survived a violent clash with state troopers outside Selma, Ala. The confrontation climaxed a remarkable decade of civil rights activity that followed the 1954 Supreme Court...
At its best moment, the staff concludes, "Segregation, voluntary or involuntary, accentuates differences and breeds intolerance." This is vitally, damnably true. But exaggeration or misinterpretation of the degree of this segregation risks a blind, reflexive response. The place for correcting very human, very social failings, lies within students themselves. Holding...
And as council member Joel Kaplan '91 of Eliot House put it, "Segregation, voluntary or involuntary, accentuates differences and breeds intolerance."
Since taking power in August, de Klerk has made several conciliatory moves aimed at promoting negotiations between Blacks and the nation's 5 million whites, who control the government and the economy. He has freed some prominent political prisoners, prohibited segregation of beaches, and permitted previously banned opposition activities, including...
Other resolutions urged parents and students to defy school segregation policies, demanded land redistribution and urged young white men to refuse mandatory military service. Delegates also demanded appointment of an independent commission to investigate allegations that police death squads have killed government opponents.