Word: segregationism
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As a law clerk in 1952, Rehnquist wrote a memo for Justice Jackson stating that "separate but equal" public education for blacks was "right and should be reaffirmed." Questioned about this at his confirmation hearings in 1971, Rehnquist insisted that he was expressing the Justice's views, not his own...
Meanwhile, college President Francis C. Oakley agreed to implement three of four proposals put forth by Williams Students for Divestment to educate students about selling stocks as a means of pressing for an end to racial segregation in South Africa, college spokesman James G. Kolesar said Thursday.
Jefferson Davis stood on the west portico to take his oath as President of the Confederacy in 1861. George Wallace stood on the same spot 100 years later, took his first oath as Governor and promised, "Segregation now! Segregation tomorrow! And segregation forever!" From where Wallace stood, one can look...
But critics of the system of racial segregation that keeps power in the hands of South Africa's white minority said they could not readily explain the timing of Botha's announcement. They insisted that the level of violence had not dropped.
At the first disciplinary hearing, Kennedy's clients were found guilty and sentenced to departmental segregation and a loss of good-time, or the deduction of up to 12.5 days per month of the total prison sentence for good behavior. Kennedy appealed to the Commissioner of Corrections, and the sanctions...