Word: segregationism
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Even though the Nixon Administration has veered away from a strong school integration policy, U.S. Commissioner of Education James E. Allen Jr. has stuck to his own course. Long a staunch opponent of segregation -de facto or de jure-Allen last week issued a statement that seemed critical of the...
"I will not allow my children to be bused and treated like cattle," insisted Louisiana Governor John McKeithen in a speech before the state school-board association. Thousands of white parents agree-except when it comes to busing that promotes school segregation.
A New York urbanologist named Paul Davidoff has decided to attack zoning in the courts. His first target is the affluent town of Oyster Bay on Long Island's North Shore, where he is advising the N.A.A.C.P. in preparing a lawsuit. His charge: "Land use control has been used...
Laughter, simmered in self-mockery, was the first black soul food. It fed the slave during his fierce day's travail in the shimmering Georgia cotton fields. It simultaneously comforted the second-class citizen and nurtured his sense of subservience during the agonizing disappointment of Reconstruction and through the...
SEGREGATION still exists in U.S. Christianity, but markedly less than in the past. Of nearly 16 million blacks who belong to Christian churches in the U.S., less than 2,000,000 are members of predominantly white denominations-but black leadership in those denominations is no longer a surprise.