Word: segregationism
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While making clear what it did not want, the court has been far less enlightening on what it does want. Though it has indicated its dissatisfaction with the "tokenism" that places a few blacks in a previously white school, it has not attempted to lay down a formula for acceptable...
The foundation of the law was laid in 1954 when the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. In it, the court held that officially segregated schools were inherently unequal and therefore unconstitutional. It is often overlooked that the court...
The court's negative mandate to the South has been clear, and de jure segregation is now theoretically all but dead. Though unhappy about the court's demand for immediate action in the few remaining pockets of Southern resistance, President Nixon has announced that he will respect and...
Some twelve Northern states have adopted legislation dealing with de facto segregation, but judicial opinion remains divided. U.S. Appeals Court Judge J. Skelly Wright ruled in a 1967 case involving Washington, D.C., that de facto segregation is just as illegal as that imposed by local law. Los Angeles Superior Court...
The Supreme Court has thus far done nothing to resolve the issue. Persistently refusing to rule, it has turned down a chance to decide-and make new law-on a dozen cases involving de facto segregation. Its action therefore leaves judges and politicians alike with the impression that it believes...