Word: segregationism
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One letter on display, from the President of Baylor University in Waco, Texas, informs Othello’s artistic company that the audience of the play would have to be segregated according to Texas’s Jim Crow laws. The production’s artistic company refused to perform...
They call him the man who killed Jim Crow, the beacon of the NAACP’s revolutionary crusade against segregation, and the architect of the historic Brown v. Board of Education ruling. And now, 55 years after his death, Harvard Law School (HLS) leaders hope they can finish what...
“In many respects, you can find that segregation by race in practice between 1980 and the year 2000 has actually increased,” Breyer said. “But I see some cause for hope.”
As the wasted Gulf Coast looks to rebuild, scholars far from the rubble speculate that New Orleans—with a past marked by entrenched poverty, racial segregation, and a local government sometimes better known for corruption than progress—faces an uncertain future.
“The images on television are a product of a combination of racial segregation and the concentration of poverty in the African American community,” says Stuart, a scholar of public policy. “Given that there is an opportunity, we should create a more...