Word: segregationism
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You can thus imagine my surprise when I arrived at Harvard four years ago to find blatant and, indeed, University-endorsed segregation and discrimination running amok. I’m not talking about anything as sinister as Students for the Klan or even the single-sex social clubs. I am...
The Weekly Standard exposé came just weeks after Climenko Professor of Law Charles J. Ogletree Jr. admitted that his book on racial segregation, “All Deliberate Speed,” released last April, had copied six paragraphs almost verbatim from another scholar’s essays. Ogletree...
Grind means to weep for the hard times of 1933, encompassing everything from segregation and the Depression to the woes of a refugee Irish terrorist. The terrorist sings not one but two songs about how he blew up a train on which, unknown to him, his wife and son were...
From the time he assumed the national leadership, becoming Prime Minister in 1978 and State President under a new constitution in 1984, Botha was regarded by South African standards as something of a reformer. He had inherited the apartheid system as defined by the late Hendrik Verwoerd, an elaborate concept...
Segregation underscores the differences in the way South African blacks and whites live. A middle-class black, even though he may earn a decent wage (perhaps $4,200), is forced to reside in a ghetto. A middle-class white, earning around $9,000, can live in a three-bedroom house...