Word: segregationism
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Sir: Your Essay on the Negro contributes to the current liberal no-lash, the let's-ease-up-for-a-while feeling spreading among many well-meaning whites. What do your "remarkable" progress, "dramatic gains," "soaring" percentage increases, "impressive" and "enormous" advances add up to? More segregation in Northern...
Four out of five U.S. students attend schools that are practically all black or all white. School segregation is rising in the North because an increasing number of neighborhoods are becoming wholly black. Ironically, integration has progressed far more rapidly in the South. Only 10% of the South's...
Uncritical Leftism. The consistent radicalism of motive has frequently brought it into conflict with Methodism's leaders and has won it such scornful epithets as "a jester in the house of Wesley." When the magazine first denounced segregation, a group of Southern bishops demanded that it cease publication. One...
* extra funds for programs actively promoting school de-segregation.
The 1964 Civil Rights Act says that desegregation "shall not mean the assignment of students to public schools in order to overcome racial imbalance." The obvious intent of Congress was to exempt de facto school segregation in the North, while seeing to it that federal funds were cut off from...