Word: segregationism
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"His message struck a special chord in me," said Los Angeles Correspondent William Marmon, whose long interview with Alex Haley, the author of Roots, accompanies our cover story. Marmon, whose own roots were in the South, finds that he too has "rattling around in my head some near-biblical family...
Desegregation began quietly, almost stealthily, in South Africa's white Roman Catholic schools. Last March, after the nation's bishops endorsed integration "in principle," a dozen blacks, Asians and mixed-race coloreds enrolled in three schools. The national government, which enforces strict racial segregation in all state schools...
Afro-Americans have known little understanding in the educational institutions of this country. In fact, what they have faced is the opposition of the white ruling class to any inclusion of black people on their own terms. This was the case in slavery, when the law punished those who would...
Perhaps more than any other people, Black Americans endorsed these principles of human rights. But for Black people, a fifth freedom was essential. Black pioneers and Black martyrs like Martin Luther King, Jr. lived an experience of which Roosevelt was incapable. They knew that as an African person, in European...
SIMPLE JUSTICE by Richard Kluger. A dramatic and illuminating social, legal and political history of the most important law case of our time-Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, which resulted in the 1954 Supreme Court decision outlawing racial segregation in public schools.