Word: segregationism
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ALMOST ANYBODY WHO is familiar with the legally enforced segregation which the government of South Africa imposes on the non-white majority of that nation agrees that the injustices must come to a rapid conclusion. But concerned parties have never been able to agree on the best policy for instituting...
The outburst of violence was the most recent indication that right-wing fringe groups, though they may be tiny in number and even dwindling, are heavily armed and well versed in paramilitary tactics. Although they encompass a variety of organizations--white supremacists, the Ku Klux Klan and militant tax resisters...
--elimination of all racial segregation in work facilities
Almost ninety years ago, Justice John Marshall Harlan wrote a prophetic dissent to the Supreme Court decision in Plessy V. Ferguson, upholding state-imposed segregation in the United States Harlan condemned mandated segregation as "inconsistent not only with that equality of rights which pertains to citizenship, but with the personal...
For many years, Winter adds, politicians "beholden to racial segregation" perpetuated a one party system in the South, ensuring the reelection of a number of high-ranking Southern politicians in the US Congress. None, however, could attract a national base of support from which to run for President.