Word: segregationism
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Harvard’s upperclassman Houses exhibited patterns of de facto segregation until 1996, when the College began to randomize housing assignments. But even though College housing is fully integrated, College life poses a more complex picture.
Formal institutions of segregation are disappearing. In fact, over the past 30 years, non-white enrollment at Harvard College has doubled.
There was praise for her pursuit of justice, her courage and grace, her embrace of peace in the face of cruel force. "As a great movement in history took shape," President Bush said, "her dignity was a daily rebuke to the pettiness and cruelty of segregation."
"My husband, Martin Luther King, Jr,, was a man who had hoped to be a Baptist preacher to a large, Southern, urban congregation," she wrote in the introduction to her 1983 book, 'The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr.' "Instead, by the time he died in 1968, he had led...
Both were struck by the specific injustice of the segregation of the Montgomery City Bus Lines, which became a national issue when Rosa Parks made her stand in that city in 1955. After that incident, the Dexter Avenue church became a growing meeting place for civil rights activists. Soon, King...