Word: segregationism
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The evening's keynote speaker was Dr. Kenneth Clark, the author of the influential report cited by the Supreme Court Justice in the Brown decision. But though Clark called up images of controversies that many like to pretend are over, he was far from nostalgic. At the time of Brown...
Senator Edward Kennedy called the Administration's record on issues affecting civil rights, women and the poor "a disgrace" and charged that Meese was "a key architect" of these policies. Kennedy tried to pinpoint Meese's role in the controversial 1982 Justice Department decision to reverse more than...
The report stated: "The Administration actively and repeatedly opposed voluntary efforts on local levels to end segregation against Justice Department rulings. The Federal structure for enforcing civil rights is severely impaired by budgetary cuts."
Thirty years after the Supreme Court ruled against public school segregation in the case of Brown V. Board of Education and 20 years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 formally outlawed segregation and discrimination throughout the land, the social cancer we call poverty has tightened its grip on a...
If some of the arguments put forth by the military and some of its supporters sound familiar, they should. They are very similar to arguments used to justify the exclusion of Blacks from full participation in American life, and more specifically to excuse the segregation of the armed forces. Military...