Word: segregationism
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But for some, the restorative powers of the road can be diminished by the hassle. Specifically, for an increasing number of women, one thing always tops the leave-behind list: men. "Women need their own time to be with themselves, create their own journeys, to be with other women to...
St. Clair also took on many other controversial cases in his decades of practice as a trial lawyer. He represented the Boston School Commission in a suit by black parents over racial segregation and defended the chaplain of Yale when he was accused on helping students evade the draft during...
May 17, 1975: Thousands swarm the Boston Commons calling for an end to public school segregation.
The real issue is whether the one-leader-fits-all model of black politics still makes sense. Back in Douglass's day, the overwhelming majority of blacks were slaves who could not speak for themselves. Even at the time of King, the movement to tear down segregation so overshadowed every...
Styron was motivated by his Southern upbringing to write the novel; “segregation left a scar on [his] psyche.” He feels a distinct connection to the era of American slavery, because his own grandmother owned two slaves at the time of emancipation.