Word: system
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soft Southern drawl, but the message was sharp and hard as steel: "When we say you have to get started, that is what we mean-tomorrow." Thus did Federal Judge Griffin B. Bell, in a conference with school officials last week, lay to rest a decades-old system of racial segregation in 30 Mississippi school districts. By Dec. 31, 26 of the districts will have to have completed reassignment of students and faculty of both races, put new school-bus routes in operation and taken all other necessary steps to end segregation. The four others have until September...
...Teachers in the East St. Louis, Ill., school system have become so terrified, says School Board President Charles Merritts, that three out of four are carrying guns to class...
Race and Rage. The subcommittee, chaired by Connecticut's Thomas Dodd, says that Chicago's teachers were attacked 1,065 times last year-an eight-fold rise in five years. During the same period, student assaults increased by 500% in the Philadelphia school system, which recorded 116 incidents last year. New York City reported 180. In five months, San Francisco's elementary-school students attacked their teachers 83 times...
...point May told the demonstrators, "Your facts are not true," but he also said that it is "quite conceivable that there are injustices and irregularities in our employment system which might be found by students and otherwise overlooked." He said that he wanted such injustices brought to his attention, but added that, in his opinion, no "specific allegations of injustice [had] so far been brought forward...
Over the summer, there was a general reorganization of the civil rights compliance system. Under the new arrangement, all universities must make their equal-employment reports to the Department of Health. Education and Welfare...