Word: segregationism
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DIED. Colgate Darden, 84, patriarchal Virginia Democrat and former Congressman who served as Governor from 1942 to 1946 and who, as president of the University of Virginia during the 1950s, modified his white-supremacist position and helped lead a successful fight against state-enforced school segregation; in Norfolk.
The fiercely proud, tribally insular Afrikaner elite faces an increasingly irreconcilable dilemma: how to avoid massive civil unrest and bloodshed without relinquishing at least some power to the overwhelmingly nonwhite majority. The 2½-year-old government of Prime Minister P.W. Botha, 65, has tried to make a beginning by...
Yet Denton is not a predictable, doctrinaire conservative or a prude. He gambles, takes a social drink now and then, and can swear like the sailor he was. He is an intimate of Baptist Preacher Jerry Falwell, and his campaign was backed by Falwell's Moral Majority. A month...
An early catalyst for the Christian schools movement was the Supreme Court's 1962 decision in Engel vs. Vitale, leading to a ban on prayer and, as practically interpreted in the public schools, to virtual elimination of religious discussion in schools. Another was 1954's Brown vs. The...
The major right-wing challenge to Botha came from the twelve-year-old Herstigte (Reformed) Nasionale Party, which strongly advocates continued white privilege, black subjection and rigid racial segregation. Though the H.N.P. was unable once again to gain a single parliamentary seat in the election, its adherents more than quintupled...