Word: segregationism
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School busing is the first issue to come up and the one most likely to be resolved to the liking of the New Right. The Senate last week approved, by a 58 to 38 vote, an amendment to a Justice Department funding bill. It would prohibit federal judges from ordering...
THE REAGAN ADMINISTRATION's assault on the 20th century continued last week, and its target was a big one: the federal government's traditional commitment to defending civil rights. Reagan supported legislation approved by the Senate would severely limit the judiciary's authority to prescribe busing as a cure for...
In states like Maryland and Virginia, where busing has been widespread, officials predict the legislation could promote re-segregation. On the local front, if expected challenges to the constitutionality of the legislation fall short, the impact of Helms' initiative could be even more stark. More than half of the 35...
Busing plainly has proven an imperfect answer to much school segregation. Particularly in the Northern cities in which it became widespread in the mid-1970s, its impact has been mixed, and is has frequently stirred up new racial tensions. But in some cities--particularly those of the Deep South, where...
By this point in our history, it should he clear to all of as that change is not a matter of new lows and systems. The most thorough-going changes in the way people collect many and spend, it, the way they raise crops or build machines, the way they...