Word: unfairnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many Southerners would hasten to condemn such a marking system as unfair. "Missouri has none of the problems of desegregation which shackle us," they would say. "It is a border state. Even in its big cities, like St. Louis, the proportion of white to colored children is still large. How would you like to send your child to a Mississippi school, where the Negro children far outnumber the white...
...Your cover of Thurgood Marshall was offensive, and your account of the segregation problem unfair and untrue. You dam-yankees are all alike-just plain stupid-and not worthy of a good lynching...
These taggings by the city are inevitable under the present law, but it does seem unfair that students who collect four or five University tickets in this manner are liable to disciplinary action by the Dean's Office. Harvard need not be responsible for providing parking space for its students but it should not take it upon itself to enforce Cambridge ordinances on non-University property. Above all, the Administration should give up punishing parking offenses against the city with such academic niceties as "parking probation...
...Eisenhower security program were quickly evident. Inexperienced and overzealous agency heads proved incapable of handling delicate matters of investigation and procedure. While many administrators enforced the Executive Order with fairness and dispatch, others tended to turn investigations, which should have taken on a quasi-judicial color, into grossly unfair proceedings which did little to insure loyalty while inconveniencing and often terrorizing loyal employees. Furthermore, the terms of the Executive Order were drawn too loosely--the Director of the National Zoo ran a security check on all his curators--and gave administrators only a vague standard of judgment...
...whose convictions on the subject of segregation he knows to be diametrically opposed to his own. "And they believe what they believe just as hard as I believe what I believe." In all those cases, before all those judges, Marshall remembers only one judge who was, in his opinion, unfair and discourteous...