Word: segregationism
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De facto segregation in Boston's public schools is being seriously challenged for the first time and the challenger is Massachusetts' Board of Education. Its weapon is a new state law permitting it to hold funds back from racially imbalanced school systems.
It came next day. Katzenbach made his point swiftly. "The position of the United States Government in this case can be very simply stated," he began. "Section 2 of the 15th Amendment gives to Congress the right to enforce Section 1 by 'appropriate legislation.' We contend this act...
With Traynor heartily concurring, in 1963 Chief Justice Gibson took California far beyond the Supreme Court's current doctrine that Northern school boards may or may not remedy de facto segregation, as they please. In a still unique state-court reading of the 14th Amendment, Gibson ruled in Jackson...
To be sure, Utopia has not arrived. The sores of segregation and poverty still fester in many parts of the U.S. despite the real gains brought by such legislation as the Voting Rights Act and the poverty program. The big cities are in need of imaginative renewal if they are...
For this reason, civil rights leaders feel the only real solution to the schools' problems will come from the Massachusetts' Board of Education. Its commissioner, under the Racial Imbalance Act, can with hold aid from a school system whose plan for correcting de facto segregation is unsatisfactory. The board is...