Word: segregationism
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(10 of 11) much over the long run by suffering the short-term agonies of integration now. "There is simply no acceptable future for American society in segregation," argues John H. Fischer, president of Columbia's Teachers College. "I cannot see how a child can be prepared for a multiracial...
The confusion caused by the Administration's ambivalence on integration is best demonstrated by the beleaguered community of Pasadena, Calif. It was one of the first non-Southern school districts to be sued by the Justice Department for deliberately perpetuating de facto segregation?school imbalances resulting from residential racial patterns...
AMID the furor over the Stennis and Whitten amendments, the forced resignation of HEW Civil Rights Chief Leon Panetta and Senator Abraham Ribicoff's blistering attack on Northern hypocrisy, the nature and precise scope of existing U.S. law on race and the schools have largely been obscured. At issue...
Co-opting Wallace. The idea of Stennis' amendment is formally correct. Morally, there should be no distinction between the legally established dual educational systems of the South and the school segregation of the North, usually resulting, de facto, from housing patterns. Yet the idea is also subversive. The de...
Wyche was considered "uppity" by town whites years ago, when that was a dangerous label. He was trying to get blacks registered to vote as far back as the late 1940s. Even before that, he says, he was openly flouting segregation, drinking out of whites-only water fountains, refusing to...