Word: segregationism
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Beyond all that, the emerging big issue is the clear effect of residential segregation on the right of blacks to attend desegregated schools. If the Constitution guarantees that right, how can it be enforced in a nation that remains unwilling to integrate its neighborhoods? In seeking an answer, moreover, the...
At issue before the Supreme Court last week were two plans-from Clarke County, Ga., and from the district made up of Charlotte. N.C., and surrounding Mecklenburg County-that represent the most exhaustive efforts so far to overcome the South's traditional patterns. Under the plans, which are being...
Few of the justices seemed to have very much patience with lawyers for Southern school boards who argued earnestly that pupil assignments should be "color-blind," based only on "proximity and convenience." Implicit in the court's previous decisions has been the idea that since assignments based on race...
Persistent Pattern. The court is not expected to reach a decision until the end of November at the earliest, and may not conclude its deliberations until spring. Whatever that decision may be, it will leave hanging the persistent pattern of "resegregation." Growing numbers of whites, for example, are sending their...
Administration spokesmen talk of attacking residential segregation with vigorous enforcement of laws barring discrimination in housing and employment. Yet so far this technique has not been very effective. Another approach involves federal aid to make integrated schools so good that educational quality overides white objections. Nixon's request for...