Word: segregationism
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One of Howe's toughest problems will be school integration. At a Washington press conference, he said that "a great deal has been done" in the South, and implied that he would try to persuade states to do more before exercising such powerful weapons as withholding federal aid. In...
As for Keppel, he will spend full time on a second job created for him last September: Assistant Secretary of HEW. As commissioner, he had attempted to withhold some $30 million worth of federal aid to Chicago schools because of racial segregation, and had brashly told the Sigma Chi fraternity...
The cities and suburbs are approaching timidly the possibility of a joint attack on segregation. "The suburbs have been delinquent," Pettigrew said this week. "They were as responsible for Watts as anyone."
"There's serious support for the bill being voiced in Washington and serious consideration being given on the part of high administration planners," Pettigrew said. He predicted that the measure, if passed, could become "a very powerful tool" for fighting de facto segregation.
Speaking to a Harvard conference on metropolitan education, Massachusett's deputy commissioner of education Saturday proposed a revolutionary plan to help end de facto segregation in Boston.