Word: segregationism
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A shrinking system of medical aid, a collapsing Social Security structure, and a surging rate of inflation all contribute to the problems of old people. But the increasing strains facing America's elderly do not find fully adaquate explanation in purely economic terms of resource allocation. Many other problems such...
Birmingham, which has worked hard to change its image as a onetime citadel of Southern segregation, does not like the publicity. Notes Mayor Richard Arrington: "A story indicating a shutdown of buses in an area of over 700,000 people cannot be viewed in any vein except a negative one...
A successful movement demands a visible, evil enemy, something activist organizers have known since the days when they were rounding up Christians for the Crusades. For the civil rights movement as a whole and SNCC in particular, the villains were easy to come by. There were the club-swinging sheriffs...
Such caution is not necessarily cynical. It is common to anyone who keeps an eye on the realities of American government, as contrasted with the sentimental and doctrinaire preachings about it. One reality of political America is the country's capacity and willingness to do whatever is deemed practically...
Desegregation may also give whites a better appreciation of American government, Willie continues. Upper- and middle-class whites often used to ignore court orders they didn't like, but desegregation taught them the function of the courts. "If Plessy vs. Ferguson [the 1896 decision authorizing 'separate but equal' facilities fro...