Word: segregationism
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Given this lack of legal protection, the white Afrikaaner government--the regime that imposes a nation-wide policy of apartheid, the racial segregation of South Africa's four million whites, 18 million blacks and 2.3 million coloureds (people of mixed racial ancestry)--can arbitrarily determine when The Mail has stepped...
Down in Mississippi, said Lawyer Nathaniel Jones bitterly, "those who resist change now realize that they can accomplish more by manipulating the legal system and the guys with the black robes than if they go out publicly in the white robes of the K.K.K." Jones, who is general counsel of...
Like many other blacks, my parents migrated North to find education and better opportunities. My father went to Howard University medical school, and my mother went to Howard's nursing school. My parents wanted to shelter their children from segregation and all its belittling aspects, so they settled in...
One by one-beginning with the Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, which outlawed school segregation, reaching on through the Civil Rights Acts of 1957, 1964, 1965 and 1968 -the barriers against blacks in the South have come tumbling down. But it is shocking to recall how high...
Bull Connor has since died -and so has Birmingham's bitterness. It is significant in the contemporary South that Alabama's largest city (pop. 295,686) has become a model of Southern race relations. Legally, everything is integrated; blacks, who make up 40% of the population, work and...