Word: segregationism
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GOVERNORS and mayors barring the schoolhouse door, hostile police, screaming and sometimes violent white mobs, ingenious legal barriers-these have been the autumnal rites in the South since the Supreme Court declared school segregation unconstitutional in 1954. No more. This fall some of the South's most recalcitrant school...
Club Klan. Few of the segregation academies charge less than $40 a month tuition, and only a handful of blue-collar whites can afford such fees. As a result they feel that they are being deserted by their wealthier neighbors. Greenville Lawyer J. Wesley Watkins III believes that their resentment...
Most major cities in the South-and in the North, for that matter-have adamantly refused to adopt the massive school busing plans necessary to compensate for residential segregation. Few are likely to do so voluntarily. Nashville has won a lower-court reprieve from a busing program pending a Supreme...
The South took a big, though uncertain step last week over the corpse of legally dead school segregation laws. There was more good will than ill, more threats made than carried out -and more confusion than harassed officials may be able to handle.
Even as the old issue of de jure segregation became a dead issue, Chief Justice Warren E. Burger made rulings on the appeals of five school systems involving what may become a still more volatile dispute on a national rather than sectional level: the question of de facto segregation, racial...