Word: integrationism
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After two decades of progress toward integration, the separation of black children in America's schools is on the rise and is in fact approaching the levels of 1970, before the first school bus rolled at the order of a court. Nationally, fully a third of black public school students...
Busing broke the back of segregation in the South, where 36.4% of black students attended majority-white schools by 1972. But Chief Justice Warren Burger's opinion in Swann also opened the door for the federal courts to get out of the integration business. Once legally enforced segregation was eliminated...
Rouse built one of the first enclosed shopping malls, in Glen Burnie, Maryland, in 1958 (he is even credited with first calling them "malls"). But he soon grew disenchanted with suburban sprawl and the unplanned chaos of most cities--"formless places without order, beauty or reason, with no visible respect...
The theme has come up elsewhere. In remarks to Russian newspapers, Yeltsin's chief of staff has also raised the possibility that the elections would be called off. The U.S. is confident the elections will be held, but Secretary of State Warren Christopher sought reassurance when he met with Russian...
Perhaps more telling is the national attempt at social engineering. Forced school busing is a perfect example. In an attempt to increase diversity and open up homogenous communities, the government instituted the busing of African-American students to primarily white schools. Sound somewhat familiar? Despite the similarities, the argument for...