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What effect would Nixon's pronouncement have on segregation now? Most experts agreed that since Nixon stuck to existing court decisions, the results would be greatest in the rural South, where de jure segregation persists in some areas. Once that ended, so would all school segregation there, since residential...
Court Interference. Nixon shrewdly made use of some black complaints when he denounced the "smug paternalism" of whites who assume that a black school is automatically inferior to a white one. That assumption, he said, "inescapably carries racist overtones." Black separatists, in fact, do favor having their own schools, and...
Allen's advice would have done Nixon little good, since the President had set out to influence the long-range trend of judicial decisions on desegregation, a trespass on the separation of powers doctrine in spirit if not in law. He denounced at some length the ruling of a...
Schools and busing are Wichita's chief focus of racial strain, as they are for so many U.S. cities. Of 13,000 children who ride school buses, 3,000 do so for purposes of integration. Some 1,000 white mothers clutching preschool tots with I DON'T WANT...
Despite that faith, the U.S. has patently failed to provide millions of young blacks with anything approaching equal education. Much of the white South still defends de jure segregation, which the Supreme Court outlawed 16 years ago as "inherently unequal." Much of the North perpetuates de facto segregation, which, as...