Word: segregationism
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LAST fall the Supreme Court ordered Southern school districts to end segregation "at once." By this fall, the Nixon Administration claimed that 90% of the region's 2,721 districts had abandoned the old "dual" system, one black and one white, that officially segregated the races in separate schools...
Policing racial hostility is difficult: the U.S. Attorney's staff in charge of the Birmingham area has only two lawyers regularly assigned to keep up with more than 60 school systems. In recent weeks, federal courts have made limited progress. They have outlawed sex segregation in Coffeeville, Miss., and...
Do It Now. Bowker found himself in a squeeze. For one thing, community colleges have the image of ranking at the bottom of the academic pecking order and thus tend to set low expectations for both students and teachers. As Bowker saw it, admitting disadvantaged students only to community colleges...
The group had been requesting information about why Mann was transferred from Deer Island to the Middlessex House of Correction and why he was placed in segregation upon arrival September 30. "They just wanted some answers and they seemed relieved by what was said this afternoon," Buckley said.
Homans said that the meeting with the sheriff had been only partially successful. "Though we obtained Mr. Buckley's cooperation in removing Mann from segregation, we won't get conclusive answers on the other issues unless we get a court hearing. Since Eric was placed in segregation immediately, it couldn...