Word: segregationist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...does mean that liberals and socialists who want to build a grassroots coalition to rival the New Right should not be afraid to adopt the language and symbolism of religion and patriotism. The flag has indeed flown over courthouses in the segregationist South and Marine bases in Vietnam. But it has also marched at the front of CIO picket lines and civil rights demonstrations. Jerry Falwell, like Father Coughlin, claims God's sanctions for his cause; but so did Martin Luther King and Dorothy Day. Poland's workers, builders of the most successful democratic mass movement in this century, struggle...
...George Wallace's voice: a slurred dankness and a warning. But mostly his message is one of populist conciliation. Wallace is a born-again Christian. He appeared before the assembled blacks of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Birmingham last summer and apologized for his old segregationist politics. Have you changed in your attitude toward blacks? Wallace is asked today. "No," he replies. "I have respected and loved them always...
...theory has it that Alabama blacks have always been cynically knowing about George Wallace, that they have figured all along that his segregationist behavior and rhetoric were matters of political expediency. There is some truth in the theory. Alabama today has the second highest (after Michigan) unemployment in the nation: 14.5%. Everywhere in Alabama the message is the same: "Folks are hurtin'." Wallace has argued, so far successfully, that as an internationally known figure and the most experienced Governor in Alabama history, he can bring new industries and new jobs to the state. So many Alabamians, black and white...
...that the Ivy League would uphold a tradition of cooperating with only two national college guides, one published by the College Board and one by a private firm. He also criticized the research techniques of the Brown group and charged that questionnaires for administrators and students were based on "segregationist and separatist assumptions that special, separate services and organizations of Black students are good and that an institution that does not provide its own minority students or potential applicants a full list of racially segregated activities is not quite on track...
...that the Ivy League would uphold a tradition of cooperating with only two national college guides, one published by the College Board and one by a private firm. He also criticized the research techniques of the Brown group and charged that questionnaires for administrators and students were based on "segregationist and separatist assumptions...that special, separate services and organizations of Black students are good and that an institution that does not provide its own minority students of potential applicants a full list of racially segregated activities is not quite on track...