Word: segregationism
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The Scotts and Sleds are stark reminders that despite the enormous civil rights gains of the past three decades, even the rawest forms of racism persist. Reports to the Community Relations Service of the Justice Department indicate that racial incidents nationwide increased by 55% from 1986 to 1987, and more...
When, in 1950, Massachusetts outlawed segregation and discrimination in public housing, it gave the FEPC power over this area, renaming it the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination. Since that time, both the state and the federal government have expanded their antidiscrimination laws, so MCAD's responsibilities have steadily grown.
THE 1930s were the heyday for the nation's Black colleges. In the midst of a society commited to segregation, and convinced of the inferiority of Blacks, colleges like Lincoln and Howard stood out as a kind of Athens for the Black intelligentsia.
Cooper said the complete segregation of the South African school system makes education far more difficult for Blacks and "coloured" residents. Education has become not a tool for learning, but another way for the Soweto government to oppress South Africa's indigenous people, he said. But he said this same...
DESCRIPTION: Degree of housing segregation in several United States cities.