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Student life and diversity, though, has improved, Jewett says. Back in the 1950s a much higher proportion of the students came from private schools. "There was much more of sense of segregation back then," remembers Jewett, who attended public high school in Taunton, "A much higher proportion of the students...
"I didn't feel particularly out-of-place, but that kind of economic segregation by family income was a significant thing," he says.
IN ITS OWN WAY, the Fifties was at least as rotten as any other decade, what with McCarthyism, segregation, the Cold War, the universal conservatism and intolerance. But modern Fifties nostalgia, generated by people who were children back then, is a peculiar kind of tunnel vision that never notices such...
Though racism has ancient origins, it must be taught anew to each child, and the best way to teach it is through ignorance. "Separation of racial groups breeds fear and misunderstanding," says William Taylor of the Center for National Policy Review, a Washington civil rights group. Or as Jomills Braddock...
The drama in Selma in March 1965 was the culmination of a decade of civil rights activism, a decade chronicled in a remarkable new TV documentary, Eyes on the Prize. The six-week PBS series, produced by Henry Hampton and debuting on Jan. 21 in most cities, uses a mix...