Word: segregationism
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Sir: I was an "inmate" of one of the BIA schools. The school offered no courses in math higher than arithmetic, no languages, no electives, and only elementary science classes. What we were offered was regimentation, strict segregation from the white kids in town and an insidious way of robbing...
Southern conservatives were encouraged to think that what they consider their long persecution had ended. The Stennis amendment declares that the guilt of segregation is nationwide -which is certainly true-and so the penalties for failing to desegregate must apply to Northern cities, with their ghettos, as well as the...
"The institutional roots of racism, which depersonalize our prejudices and make it easier for us to defend them," said Ribicoff, "are as deeply embedded in the large metropolitan communities of the North as they are in the small rural communities of the South." He cited Government studies that show that...
Few would quarrel with Ribicoff's general indictment of the North, although it could be argued that the South's more purposeful and officially sanctioned racial discrimination has helped push blacks into Northern urban ghettos and that the North's kind of racism more readily yields to...
The North's ambivalence was further dramatized by Superior Court Judge Al fred Gitelson's ruling that Los Angeles was violating the rights of its black and Mexican American children-who constitute 44% of the city's 654,000 students-by keeping most of them in schools...