Word: segregationism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Dr. James L. Adams, chairman of the Christian ethics department, is also concerned with ending segregation. But Adams views the racial and religious conflicts as examples of the more general problem of separation and alienation. To illustrate the point, he tells a story about two graduate students who found themselves...
Segregation of classes, of disciplines, of neighborhoods--these are, according to Adams, the things that mark an ailing society. "Churches almost inevitably participate in these segregations," he says. "The local congrega-5ARTHUR J. DYCK (left) and RALPH B. POTTER JR., part-time teachers, part-time population experts, try to teach...
The Citizens' pamphleteers worked day and night to counter the anti-busing fervor. They wrote, "the issue [racial imbalance] has been clouded by the false emphasis on busing, which has frightened people into forgetting that the real issue is educational progress of all children." They cited the Kiernan report, the...
Gartland is no flaming radical. He is an insurance broker, Irish and Roman Catholic, born and raised in Boston. He admits privately that de facto segregation never bothered him until the school boycott of 1963, when he was already serving on the school committee. His concern first manifested itself when...
A Department of Health, Education, and Welfare team is now trying to determine if Boston has violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Law of 1964, which forbids discrimination in federally-aided programs. The law does not prohibit de facto segregation, only willful segregation of the uneven allocation of resources...