Word: segregationism
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The name of the process is "resegregation." It happens typically when a once-white school is opened to all races and in a few years becomes all-Negro. Or, in another backfire of the Supreme Court's desegregation decision, a few Negroes may try classes in a white school...
The result surprised everybody on the defense. It was Alexandria's first segregation case, and, judging from previous events and feelings here CORE members had anticipated a tough sentence from the jury in the trial.
Goldfarb explained that when the case is at the Supreme Court level, the issue of the 14th Amendment will be more clear cut. Part of today's defense was the contention that, in arresting Goldfarb, the state was enforcing a policy of segregation in public accommodations.
The incident led to court, where anti-apartheid forces pushed a test case to see whether non-whites could be legally barred from pools. The High Court in Salisbury found against such segregation, and white-wigged Chief Justice Sir Hugh Beadle cited U.S. Supreme Court desegregation rulings. "These decisions are...
With Southern schools slowly getting integrated, attention is increasingly turning toward school segregation in large Northern cities, which results from segregated housing. Conant believes the situation cannot be rectified by simply mixing Negro with white children throughout a city. ''The real issue," he says, "is not racial integration...