Word: segregationism
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A century later similar counsel was offered to Dr, Martin Luther King during his attempts to end racial segregation, the "constitutional" rights then were States' Rights and the "freedom to associate."
Some would argue that affirmative action is different from slavery and segregation because the issue now is being qualified to do a job. Again let us recall that distinguished scholars amassed substantial evidence which supposedly demonstrated that slaves were not "qualified" for freedom and, in the Fifties and Sixties, that...
The proceedings of the newly formed Commission's first meeting last week are a tribute to Reagan's success in molding this nation's 4 most influential civil rights agency. In a succession of 6-2 votes, the Commission 1) criticized the Supreme Court for not reversing a lower court...
The purported watchdog agency demonstrated its change in approach at the new group's first meeting last week. In sharp contrast to previous Commissions' vigorous support for affirmative action and desegregation, Reagan's Commission voted 6-2 against the use of numerical goals as a method of redressing past discrimination...
When Fisk University opened its doors, in a Union Army barracks in Nashville in 1866, it was dedicated to "the education and training of young men and women, irrespective of color." But Tennessee's segregation laws ensured that whites went to other colleges, leaving Fisk with little financial support...