Word: segregationists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...October, the Asian American Association organized a debate between student leaders on the legitimacy of ethnic groups at Harvard. In a tightly packed room, students argued whether ethnic groups on campus were fundamentally devoted to promoting diversity or simply segregationist social clubs...
DIED. ART HANES, 80, die-hard segregationist Southern mayor; in the city he ruled for a single, notorious term, Birmingham, Ala. In 1962 Hanes shut down Birmingham's parks rather than open them to blacks; in 1968 he became James Earl Ray's first lawyer...
...young Lott family returned to Pascagoula, where Trent practiced law. But after less than a year, the district's veteran Congressman, William Colmer, chairman of the rules committee and a staunch segregationist, offered Lott a top staff job. The family packed their belongings into a green Pontiac Bonneville and set out for Washington, as Tricia put it, "to stay a couple of years and see if we liked...
...portrays the four-term Alabama governor as contemplating suicide following a 1972 assassination attempt. The 77-year-old Wallace insists that he never considered suicide. Having long since made peace with the black Americans he once opposed, he's concerned that Lee's film will unnecessarily dredge up his segregationist past. "I grow a bit weary with people who were always his critics saying he has to spend the rest of his life apologizing," says son George Wallace Jr. The family is also struggling to keep a lid on a lengthy interview that Lee conducted with Wallace last year, centering...
...Perpetuating segregationist institutions is not the way to go," said Cherny, who is a Crimson editor. "We should instead try to break down the walls preventing equality between males and females...