Word: segregationism
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Author Richard Kluger, 52, is uniquely qualified to tell this tale. He was a Tribune editor during those final years. He has a nuts-and-bolts knowledge of journalism, acquired in jobs ranging from rewrite man on the Wall Street Journal to publisher of a suburban New York weekly. He...
The three hues appear on everything from floral wreaths to T shirts, dominating mass funerals for black victims of South Africa's racial violence, meetings of the United Democratic Front opposition and the few other public demonstrations permitted under the current state of emergency. Black stands for the people, green...
Meese has denigrated the Dred Scott and Plessy opinions and has cheered the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education verdict, whose broad result was to end legal segregation. In Brown, said Meese, the court "was restoring the original principle of the Constitution to constitutional law." Yet the Brown decision $ rests...
It's not like the West hasn't dealt with this problem before. There have been murderers, there's been segregation and there have been those who have rejected the fundamental ideas that make the family of Western nations the most liberal and free among all the peoples on this...
Rehnquist was one of two dissenters (the other: Byron White) from Roe vs. Wade, the court's 1973 decision creating a constitutional right to abortion, and he has repeatedly dissented from court decisions banning prayer in schools. Court decisions upholding affirmative action have regularly drawn his scornful dissents. "There is...