Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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NEARLY 105 years after the end of the Civil War, and in a week in which much of the nation closed government offices, banks and schools to honor Abraham Lincoln, the struggle for equality still tormented and divided the nation...
...Court Judge Al fred Gitelson's ruling that Los Angeles was violating the rights of its black and Mexican American children-who constitute 44% of the city's 654,000 students-by keeping most of them in schools with few whites. Gitelson accepted arguments of the American Civil Liberties Union, which had filed the suit, and found the school board guilty of de jure segregation by building new schools, drawing new attendance districts and creating busing policies without regard for the fact that they would not achieve integration. He also moved toward blurring the distinction between de jure...
...guilty verdict against five defendants has almost incidentally become a landmark decision in the controversial trial. The verdict is the first decision under the famous "Rap Brown amendment" attached to the 1968 Civil Rights...
...last intense debate was over the reports of the Civil Disobedience and Draft workshops. Rejecting a proposal to support the New Mobilization Committee's anti-draft week (scheduled for March) and an Independent Front resolution to actively integrate civil disobedience into demonstrations, the conference passed a motion to leave tactics up to local SMC chapters. The national SMC will continue to oppose the draft and defend any member who violates draft laws...
Several law professors have joined civil rights groups in oposing Carswell's nomination...