Word: segregationism
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Today, the same scene could probably be repeated in Boston with only minor changes. In place of the South Carolina convention would be the Boston School Committee. With secession no longer an issue--at least for northern states--the crucial vote would concern the question of de facto segregation. And...
Like his ancestor, whom he calls, "my patron saint--the rest of the Pettigrews were real bastards"--Pettigrew is a rebel, and loves it. On the day he was to testify before the Boston School Committee on the psychological effects of school segregation, he told a class that he hoped...
Of medium height with a graying crewcut, Pettigrew could easily pass for a junior executive--that is, until he opens his mouth. He speaks in slang, spiced with psychological and sociological jargon. (Someone is "scared as shatters;" de facto segregation is the "functional equivalent" of legal segregation.) His Southern drawl...
"We Southern liberals," he suggests fondly, "we've had a dream that the South will beat the North in race relations. In the South, Negros and whites share a religion and a culture--they've been there together for 14 generations. In the North, on the other hand, there's...
His death stunned a crowd of about 500, mostly Negroes, who had gathered at the site of a new public elementary school at Lakeview Road on the city's East Side. They were there to protest construction of the school in the Negro neighborhood on grounds it would perpetuate segregation...