Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lawyer Nixon carefully reviewed the judicial decisions involving desegregation, beginning with the Supreme Court's historic 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling. He concluded that where segregation exists de jure, by law or manipulation by authorities, the impediments must be removed. "There is a constitutional mandate that dual...
Nixon did add a sweetener. He proposed that $1.5 billion in federal funds be made available to "racially impacted areas" over the next two fiscal years to help desegregating school districts meet their special needs for classrooms, teachers and teacher training-and to improve the quality of education "where de...
The Black Panthers, excessive demands and segregation in reverse are hardly conducive to good race relations.
The acquiescence of a majority of Southerners in official efforts at continued segregation is deplorable. God help the blacks: whites never will.
Benjamin Holman, black head of the Justice Department's community-relations service, rejects integration as "unrealistic and unwise" because most whites cannot accept it. Holman's goal, he says, "is not some sort of vague, illusory melting pot in which we're all mixed like salt and...