Word: goldsboro
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...Supreme Court ruling administered the coup de grace to one of the Administration's major political blunders. It stemmed from the Internal Revenue Service's denial of tax exemptions for Bob Jones University of Greenville, S.C., which bars interracial dating and marriage, and the Goldsboro Christian Schools of Goldsboro, N.C., which excludes black students. Rejecting tax breaks for discriminatory schools had been IRS policy since 1970. But Bob Jones University and Goldsboro Christian sued, claiming that their racial practices were dictated by religious beliefs and were thus constitutionally protected. On Jan. 8, 1982, Reagan, bowing to pressure from...
...events began late on the afternoon of Jan. 8 with the dual announcement that the IRS was changing its established policy and the Justice Department was abandoning its Supreme Court case against two schools with discriminatory policies, Bob Jones University of Greenville, S.C., and North Carolina's Goldsboro Christian Schools. The stormy, and unforeseen, reaction soon brought President Reagan's "explanation" that he did not actually favor a tax break for the schools but thought the IRS had been exceeding its authority. So, he asked, would Congress please pass legislation specifically denying such schools any tax breaks...
...benefits of tax exemption from the private white academies that were founded in the South and elsewhere to evade integration. Other schools that discriminated for religious reasons also got socked by the IRS. Two of them, the fundamentalist Bob Jones University in South Carolina and North Carolina's Goldsboro Christian Schools, challenged the action as an infringement of their First Amendment right to freedom of religion. When they went to the Supreme Court, they were opposed at first by the Reagan Justice Department. Then came word, just before the close of business last week for the Supreme Court, that...