Word: segregationism
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SQUATTING tiredly on the banks of the river from which it takes its name, Yazoo City is an arche typical Mississippi community. Dependent on the cotton crop, it is, like the rest of the state, a land of hill and Delta where traditions are respected and segregation is not just...
Even more encouraging is the attitude of the community's white parents. While many simply cannot afford to send their children to the area's three all-white segregation academies, an equally large number are convinced that, given time, white and blacks can coexist. "Those of us who...
What About the North? Mississippi's courtly Senator John Stennis is fond of saying: "If it is the law in the South, it is the law outside the South." Like many of his fellow Southerners, Stennis is upset by what he considers the unfair treatment of his region by...
Segregation is almost as widespread to the north as to the south of the Mason-Dixon line. According to a 1968 study by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, 61% of all black students in the U.S., excluding Hawaii, still attend schools that are 95% or more black. Most...
Unlike Southern school segregation, which is the result of official policy, segregation in the North is less purposeful and harder to correct. In most cities, segregation came about accidentally, only to be perpetuated deliberately. In Chicago, where educational separation is the result of segregated housing patterns, whites have voted down...