Word: segregationism
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The Supreme Court, like many lower courts in the land, is mortifyingly behind in its work. Only once has the court found it necessary to delay beyond the end of June adjudication of a case argued during its regular nine-month term. That came two years ago in the Detroit...
The South of the 1920s is dead, of course, and so is the Southern Baptism of the '20s. Baptist leaders today protest with justifiable vehemence against stereotyped suspicions. "We're not a bunch of right-wing bigots," says Floyd Craig. "We're a pluralistic people. Every ethnic...
Died. Abby Rockefeller Mauze, 72, eldest child of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and sister of Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller; of cancer; in Manhattan. Thrice married, she dedicated much of her life to philanthropy. Among her beneficiaries were the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and a...
Legal Loophole. The case was initiated in 1966 by Dorothy Gautreaux -who died in 1969-and five other blacks. They sued the Chicago Housing Authority and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for perpetuating segregation by building low-cost apartment complexes for blacks almost exclusively in inner-city...
Few professors have caused as much furor as did James S. Coleman when he suggested last April that court-ordered busing was a failure. He claimed that a new study of his showed school desegregation often drove white children out of city schools, thus causing more segregation. The presumption was...