Word: segregationism
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The court ruled that separation of black children "generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone." Yet as the segregation battle moved from the South (where today 46% of blacks attend...
The 1.6 million South Africans who went to the polls in parliamentary elections last week were all white, but uppermost in their minds were the 18,750,000 nonwhite South Africans who cannot vote. Prime Minister John Vorster, 58, called the elections 18 months ahead of schedule to seek a...
In the poisonous atmosphere of Northern Ireland, life is particularly precarious for those in "mixed" Protestant-Catholic marriages. Many such families have been hounded by terrorists bent on enforcing strict segregation. Last week one "mixed" family lost its fifth member in the past 18 months.
Frank Kelley, attorney general of Michigan and counsel for the Michigan State Board of Education, which opposes a metropolitan solution, argued that because only the Detroit School Board, and none of the suburban boards, has been guilty of violations, a remedy for the resulting segregation could not involve suburban districts...
Nicholas Flannery, counsel for the NAACP-supported advocates of trans-district busing, argued that the interaction of residential patterns and school segregation is as important as intentionally discriminatory policies by district school boards.