Word: segregationism
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Would they have agreed to such segregation? asked the incredulous Neal. "I don't presume so," admitted Mitchell.
Upon entering the Law School, each student is assigned to one of four freshman sections which he or she will stay in for the remainder of the year. The student takes an entire load of courses within the same section in an assigned seat, and this physical segregation results in...
No Power. For the majority, Chief Justice Warren Burger ruled that the original 1972 Detroit cross-district busing plan was improper because whatever the situation in Detroit itself, the school systems in the surrounding suburbs had not been accused of unlawful segregation. Concluded Burger: "Where the schools of only one...
In sum, the ruling meant that busing from one community-wide school district to another is not a proper remedy for school segregation in Detroit or, by implication, in any other city. Burger's opinion left one small avenue open to cross-district busing: a court could order it...
One of the more outspoken opponents of the centers was Rep. Edith Green (D-Ore.), a frequent contributor to last year's eleven-hour debate on the bill in the House of Representatives. "When we pass a bill to provide legal aid for the poor," she asked her fellow representatives...