Word: segregationism
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In his book Dark Ghetto, Dr. Clark describes how segregation, economic insecurity, and periodic unpleasant brushes with a white world that considers the Negro an inferior have led to some Negroes' having a complex and debilitating prejudice against themselves. The preoccupation of many Negroes with hair straighteners, skin bleaches...
Massachusetts likes to remind its sister states that it is first in several educational fields. Last week in the Statehouse atop Beacon Hill, Republican Governor John Volpe boasted about some of those historical attainments: first public school (1635), first U.S. college (1636), first state board of education (1837), first state...
On the other hand, the state's Republican Attorney General Edward Brooke, a Negro, called the legislation a "dramatic and heartening" step in the drive to "ensure equality in education." Still, the law may have to be harshly applied in Boston, where more than 50% of the enrollment in...
Forces of Segregation. Dr. Thurman, an author, a lecturer and a Negro, is dean emeritus of Boston University's campus chapel. Into this book he has packed a lifetime's contemplation on a matter to which no man should have to give a second thought: the color of...
That left the field open to the segregationist, says Thurman. No voice rallied the liberal, or that far larger body of moderates who seldom move without a command, during that vital interval before the forces of segregation, then disunited, gathered and took charge. The only voice that might have prevented...