Word: tokenism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Orleans than in St. Louis. For another, Rummers health has long been failing: besides suffering from glaucoma, he nearly died in 1960 of pneumonia, after a fall in which he broke an arm and a leg. But now New Orleans' public schools have been integrated, in token fashion, for more than a year, and last month Rummel ordered that the city's Catholic schools, which enroll almost half of New Orleans' white students, be completely desegregated in September. Privately, many Catholics credit Rummel's stiff stand to the influence of brisk new CoAdjutor Archbishop John Patrick...
...undersigned faculty members of Van derbilt's Divinity School do not consider its almost ten years of integration to be token desegregation. Colleagues absent during spring recess vould undoubtedly agree...
...SANDERSON Vanderbilt '39 Dallas, Texas Sir: The undersigned faculty members of Vanderbilt's Divinity School do not consider its almost ten years of integration to be token desegregation. Colleagues absent during spring recess would undoubtedly agree...
...liberalism relative to some of the other Communist states exists in certain areas. Policy toward the Catholic Church has softened since harsh treatment provoked the mass exodus of refugees in 1954. A few Churches are still active and religious freedom for all religions has been officially proclaimed and in token cases accepted...
...have failed to act within the time set by their constitutions. And a number of other states will certainly face court challenges to redistrict; even some of the 21 states that did redistrict after the 1960 census may face legal accusations from city voters that theirs were only token efforts. Whether all such suits will succeed depends, of course, on circumstances and the letter of the constitution in each state...