Word: segregationism
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Brooke has never rallied his race to challenge segregation barriers with the inspirational fervor of a Martin Luther King. Unlike Thurgood Marshall, Roy Wilkins or Philip Randolph, he has not been a standard-bearer in the civil rights movement. He has made none of the volatile public breakthroughs to equality...
Died. Graham A. Barden, 70, Democratic Congressman from North Carolina's Third District (southeast part of the state) and predecessor of Adam Clayton Powell as chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor, a dedicated obstructionist who during 13 terms in Congress never wavered in his support of...
Moynihan charges that civil rights leaders lost the initiative for a program "going beyond the traditional and relatively easy issues of segregation and discrimination" -- and misses the point. Civil rights and the Federal government were natural allies; they were both ostensibly dedicated to the libertarian issues that were easy: the...
Why? The reasons vary, Within weeks of the speech the President was caught up in the series of decisions that led to the large-scale introduction of ground forces into Vietnam later that summer. The address at Howard was in a sense his last peacetime speech. Thereafter, one would assume...
Girl students in America are of a lower class. Harvard University admits no girls but has set up a separate institute for them. Superficially this looks like mere segregation of girls from boys. In reality it is discrimination against the girl students. Large numbers of university girls study domestic science...