Word: segregationism
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The referendum was a personal triumph for Botha. After taking office in 1978, he claimed that South Africans must "adapt or die" in confronting the racial segregation policies that have made their country an international outcast. His ideas of adaptation, however, have never included any role in national decision making...
The senator focused on segregation in the public school system. Bond said Reagan's Justice Department has been trying to revive "separate but equal"--segregated--schooling.
Jesse Jackson's claim that Vanessa Williams did for the Miss America Pageant what Jackie Robinson did for the Brooklyn Dodgers is absurd [Oct. 3]. Williams lives in a society that has legally abolished racial segregation. That was not the case when Robinson broke baseball's "color barrier...
This time there was no simple sentence that meant "guilty" or "innocent," no terse phrase that decreed a statute "unconstitutional" or "constitutional." Yet the 1,000 words that Chief Justice Earl Warren read off to the crowded Supreme Court chamber one day last week released a powerful tide of law...
It was the great virtue of the court's decision that it clearly and unequivocally demanded desegregation, and then left the time and latitude for each community to find its own way to the goal set. No one could forecast precisely how the great new tide of law would...