Word: segregationism
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Birmingham in 1963 desperately needed change. It was the civil rights epicenter, a place where bombings of the black community were so frequent that the town was nicknamed "Bombingham." Most white families were apoplectic about federal court orders to integrate the city's public schools, and one of their champions...
The four-day Color Lines Conference, organized by Harvard’s Civil Rights Project (CRP), was packed with high-profile events, including a speech by a top official from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the presentation of a major study revealing unusually high...
Both said the conference’s planning had also fortuitously coincided with a huge outpouring of new segregation research occasioned by the University of Michigan’s affirmative action cases.
Orfield also cited the upcoming anniversary of the landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling against segregation, Brown v. Board of Education—and the 2004 elections.
In a last-minute addition to the schedule, University President Lawrence H. Summers exhorted attendees of a historic Civil Rights Project (CRP) conference on segregation to “categorically reject complacency” last Monday.