Word: segregationism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
NO single word in all the arguments over school integration has inspired as much fear and anger as busing. The idea of taking a child out of his own neighborhood to help integrate a school elsewhere outrages many parents. Yet as a practical matter, the bus is an indispensable corrective...
While the court's approval of busing will have the most practical impact, its decisions on four overlapping school cases also gave federal judges wide discretion to use almost any means they consider effective in desegregating dual school systems. Judges may demand the redrawing of school-district boundaries, even...
For two months Font worked at the base Family Housing Office, helping veterans returning from the war find homes. When Font uncovered evidence of racial segregation and unfair housing policy in nearby Odenton, Maryland, and brought this matter to the attention of his superiors, he was transferred to another job...
The proclivity of some states for shortchanging the poor and using federal money to promote segregation encouraged the strict federal guidelines in the first place. To curb this tendency, Nixon would make state education departments retain some guidelines for special revenue sharing in poverty areas.
De Anda, a Texas lawyer, has worked on a substantial number of civil rights cases involving racial and ethnic discrimination in his home state. One of the first lawyers in Texas to bring de facto segregation school cases to court, De Anda will discuss his civil rights experience in Texas...