Word: segregationism
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Despite the fact that Democrats out-number Republicans by three to one in Maryland, Agnew easily beat Mahoney in that election. But the Ted Agnew who captured the governorship of Maryland on a wave of backlash against segregation was a far cry from the Spiro Agnew who would emerge on...
It is astonishing in 1973 that schools such as Alabama and Texas, long considered bastions of segregation which rode their homogeneously white football rosters to national prominence, have greater numbers of blacks on their respective squads than Harvard.
The spring of 1954 was a memorable season. After seven years of fighting, the French were ready to pull out of Viet Nam. Gamal Abdel Nasser took over as Premier of Egypt. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. And on an April afternoon...
SCHOOL FINANCING. Many experts are coming to believe that the answer to the segregation and poverty of inner-city schools may lie not in busing but in broader-based school systems encompassing the surrounding suburbs. But such systems would require basic changes in the way schools are financed. The Supreme...
The idea for the legal full-court press developed slowly in the offices of the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund, the organization of lawyers (now independent of the N.A.A.C.P.) that had won the long legal battle against Southern school segregation. Primarily concerned with representing black clients and causes, L.D.F. attorneys were...