Word: segregationism
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Bok pointed to reforms since his years incollege, when segregation and anti-Semitism wereprominent. "We are far better off than we werethen, thanks to the people who didn't write-offthe problems as insurmountable," he said.
THE practice of "hazing" at these Black fraternities and sororities is a tradition that goes almost as far back as the existence of many of Harvard's elitist final clubs. The Black groups go back to the time of collegiate segregation, which unfortuantely, is not so far back for Harvard...
The ruling that the court will reconsider is Runyon v. McCrary, a 1976 case involving suits by black parents against two all-white private schools. That decision required the Justices to look into the language of laws enacted in the wake of the Civil War, when Congress was seeking to...
The Reagan Administration has made a surprisingly poor target. President Reagan has not been playing George Wallace, hurling racist slurs, and chanting "segregation forever." While David Stockman's book reveals some racist attitudes at the White House, and the press worried for a while that Reagan was going to "turn...
In person, Wilson seems as gentle and contemplative as his plays. He frets about a "whole generation ((of black youths)) that has not learned to read," but offers neither sweeping solutions nor invective. He was not always so mellow. Drawn to the Black Power movement in the 1960s, he helped...