Word: segregationism
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MR: A white girl. They were all young people. The girl wrote a letter to a friend of hers that said, “those boys didn’t jazz me.” Their lawyer, Leibowitz, used that to break the case. In those days, if you touched...
In the case of the civil rights movement, television provided the first rough draft of history. Searing images of demonstrators being beaten, attacked by police dogs and knocked down by fire hoses aroused the conscience of the nation and helped assure the movement's success. But for all its power...
"We really haven't made any progress on segregation," Orfield said. "No serious efforts have been made to break the cycle."
Evidence of the trend towards segregation can be found in census data gathered from the Boston area. According to the 2000 census, middle class minorities are moving to the suburban communities around the Route 128 belt in record numbers, but this influx of minorities has corresponded with a dramatic drop...
Experts argue that a solution to this tendency towards segregation can only be reached by a conscious and purposeful effort. These steps would include more serious fair housing enforcement and support for dwindling interracial communities.