Word: segregationism
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Sex-segregation
"When I was growing up on a farm in the state of Georgia, in the heart of the southern United States, an invisible wall of racial segregation stood between me and my black playmates. It seemed then as if that wall between us would exist forever." With his audience hushed...
Dressed in black, with a gold Star of David* glittering at his throat, Crouch generated his own kind of involvement. The singer ate with the inmates and, ignoring the unwritten prison law of segregation, passed from one racial group to another with dignity and ease. Said he: "I come in...
Perhaps the most degrading aspect of the system is the web of social segregation laws and customs known as petty apartheid. In this respect?unlike many others?the segregation is similar to that which existed in the U.S. South until the '60s. Petty apartheid includes everything from segregated buses to...
Further liberalization of the segregation laws is promised, although the concessions, as always, will come too late to satisfy rising black aspirations. Last month urban blacks were authorized to hold 42 more kinds of jobs than before?including those of auctioneer, druggist, chiropractor and boardinghouse keeper. Officially, pay scales for...