Word: segregationism
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But the pre-1966 civil rights movement which fought "legal" segregation did not secure him the equality of social and economic opportunity he desired even more. He had won some grudging respect as a legal person, but his frustrations deepened.
Of 201 public schools in Boston, 45 had at least 51 percent nonwhite enrollment. Twenty of these had atleast 95 percent nonwhite enrollment. The degree of segregation is intensifying.
* The open enrollment system is ineffective and cumbersome, and that the Boston School Committee has no intention of doing anything about de facto school segregation. Its refusal to abide by the provisions of the Massachusetts Racial Imbalance Ace has caused mounting frustration and anger in the Negro community.
Although the U.S. Supreme Court has clearly ruled that separate school systems for whites and Negroes are unconstitutional, de facto segregation resulting from residential patterns has until now seemed beyond reach of the courts. Last week Judge J. Skelly Wright of the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that de facto...
A native of New Orleans who ordered his city's schools integrated in a series of decisions between 1956 and 1962, Judge Wright delivered his 183-page ruling in a case involving the schools of Washington, D.C., in which 90% of the students are Negroes. "Racially and socially homogeneous...