Word: segregationism
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In his article, Monro stressed the importance of strengthening the work in the early grades and urged continuing efforts to desegregate the public schools. He suggested that segregation is at least as harmful for whites as it is for blacks, causing in the whites a dangerous "sickness of soul."
Sir: When President Nixon said, "We need to have a middle course" between "instant integration" and "segregation forever," it seemed quite obvious to me that he was advocating the attainment of integration as quickly as could reasonably be expected; not necessarily instantaneous nor delaying it forever. The analogies made by...
1962. Like many Southern cities in the early '60s, Charlottesville, Va., devised a school-zoning plan that produced de facto segregation. Elementary school pupils were assigned to neighborhood schools, but if members of their race were in the minority, they could transfer to schools where their own race was...
The President's enthusiasm for this kind of metronomic statecraft found startling expression last week during Nixon's first press conference in three months. Said he: "There are those who want instant integration and those who want segregation forever. I believe we need to have a middle course...
Only about 70 of Leake County's 2,100 Negro schoolchildren have elected to brave harassment and enroll in white schools under the "freedom of choice" plan that has been in effect since 1965. Most attend all-black schools. The schools and their physical facilities are no longer unequal...