Word: segregationism
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They simply moved to install the status quo ante in all but name, Stampp charges. Before the U.S. Congress reconvened in December 1865, the so-called "Johnson" state governments "had introduced the whole pattern of disenfranchisement, discrimination and segregation into the postwar South." Suffrage was restricted to whites; no effective...
The Boston School Committee is at it again. For more than two years, four of the five members of the Committee have refused to admit that any de facto segregation or racial imbalance exists in Boston's schools. They have refused to conduct serious discussions with leaders of civil rights...
The Boston NAACP, citing a precedent in Spring-field, this week filed a suit to force the School Committee to end de facto segregation. But the Springfield case is under appeal, and the U.S. Supreme Court does not appear likely to rule racial imbalance by itself unconstitutional. Furthermore, obtaining a...
He returned to the State House late in the afternoon to address a joint session of the Massachusetts legislature. He urged the legislature to "go all out to aid those communities which are seriously trying to grapple with the problem of de facto segregation."
At a press conference earlier in the day, King termed the recent Kiernan report on de facto segregation in Massachusetts schools "excellent" and called for the implementation of one of the report's they recommendations: a state law requiring local boards of education to eliminate racial imbalance in public schools...