Word: segregationist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...post civil-rights and post-segregationist environment, there is less a driving force and more a search for collective cohesion and identity among Blacks," says the chairman of the Afro-Am Department...
...recent years some South African universitieshave begun admitting Blacks rather than followingstrictly segregationist policies. The numbers ofBlacks enrolled in such interracial institutionsare few--only about 9000 of the hundreds ofthousands of college age Blacks in 1985. But atleast in the views of some educators, theseuniversities offer a chance for moderatelyreforming South Africa...
Falwell's bellicose entry into the South Africa tangle produced an unholy uproar. A leading U.S. clergyman, President Philip Cousin of the National Council of Churches, said Falwell is "acting like a segregationist." Even the State Department appeared embarrassed. A spokesman termed Tutu a "recognized black leader" and a "voice of moderation in the midst of violence and repression." Last Friday Falwell said on CNN that his use of phony was "unfortunate," and wired an apology to Tutu. He planned further explanation on his own Sunday TV show...
...without giving an inch on the Bible issues. Falwell wants to build spiritual alliances with as many of the moderate Evangelicals as possible. But even without the furor over his foray into South Africa, he faces enormous obstacles in building support among black Protestants. In the 1960s, the ex- segregationist did nothing to advance civil rights. Today his right-wing political agenda does not fit that of most blacks. With a few exceptions, ; black churches are too flexible in theology to qualify as Fundamentalist...
...Negroes. Its voting rolls are 99% white, 1% Negro. More than a city, Selma is a state of mind. "Selma," says a guidebook on Alabama, "is like an old-fashioned gentlewoman, proud and patrician, but never unfriendly." But the symbol of Selma is Sheriff James Clark, 43, a bullyboy segregationist who leads a club-swinging, mounted posse of deputy volunteers, many of them Ku Klux Klansmen. It was in Selma, four years ago, that the Federal Government filed its first voting-rights suit, but court processes are slow, and Selma Negroes remain unregistered...