Word: segregationism
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Justice William Rehnquist, generally considered the most conservative member of the Supreme Court, has refused to stay busing orders in Nashville and Oklahoma City. His fellow Nixon appointee, Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr., did the same in a case from Augusta, Ga. Powell concluded that Augusta's busing was...
Died. Senator Allen J. Ellender, 81, by seniority automatically president pro tempore of the Senate and therefore third in the line of succession to the U.S. presidency; of a heart attack; in Bethesda, Md. The Senate's oldest and most senior member, Ellender was a graduate of Huey Long...
If you pose the question in your terms to the consumer (the elderly resident), you are likely to find an overwhelming majority opting for some form of separation (i.e.: segregation). (NOTE: I did just that as a moderator at a Conference for Senior Citizens a couple of weeks back. Answer...
Similarly, on TV's Issues and Answers, he allowed that he might look with favor upon the nomination of Senator Robert Byrd to the Supreme Court, despite the conservative record of the West Virginian, who is antibusing. Next day McGovern retracted the statement. His present stand is that he...
RACIAL RELATIONS: "The data suggest that integration heightens racial identity and consciousness, enhances ideologies that promote racial segregation and reduces opportunities for actual contact between the races." In Riverside, Calif., after one year of integration, both black and white children tended to choose their own race to a greater extent...