Word: segregationism
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Faced twice with the possibility of ruling on the constitutionality of de facto school segregation, the Supreme Court has twice evaded the issue. By refusing to review a lower court decision that Gary, Ind., was not obliged to desegregate 17 de facto schools, and by refusing to review another decision...
The judge's uncompromising answer testified to the plaintiff's success. "Education is tax supported and compulsory," said Sweeney. "Public school educators, therefore, must deal with inadequacies within the educational system as they arise, and it matters not that the inadequacies are not of their making. This is...
Wondering what "our brethren" in Alabama have concluded about the expanding consequences of the Supreme Court's landmark decision against school segregation, Columbia University Law Professor Marvin Frankel read straight through the 1954-64 issues of The Alabama Lawyer, official publication of the Alabama Bar Association.
In contrast with this, they say, is Harvard's practise of recognizing "student organizations of ever kind, from the reactionary right wing to the radical left...promoting every conceivable kind of social goal, from segregation to integration."
Although the Springfield decision may be appealed to a higher court, "odds are that it will stand," Pettigrew said. "So far, the Supreme Court has refused to hear any cases concerning do facto segregation--no matter which way they have gone. I think they are waiting for the case to...