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NEWS ABOUT: segregation

segregation stories: 13 news summaries

 First Lady's 
 Roots Linked 
 to Slave Girl 

Genealogist fills in gaps of her lineage

Oct 7, 09 5:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - Michelle Obama can trace her lineage to a female slave sold as a young girl from a South Carolina plantation and sent to Georgia. As a teenager, Melvinia Shields became impregnated by a white man, possibly her master, and those two are the great-great-great grandparents of Michelle. A genealogist working... More »

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African Americans • Michelle Obama • segregation • slavery • ancestry

 Bell, Carter's AG, Dead at 90 

Bell defanged Jim Crow as appellate court judge

Jan 5, 09 5:24 PM CST
(Newser) - Griffin Bell, a Southerner who opposed racial segregation and led the Justice Department under President Carter, died today at age 90, the New York Times reports. Bell handled damage control as a post-Nixon attorney general, de-politicizing the Justice Department and the FBI. His earlier rulings as an appeals court judge,... More »

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Department of Justice • law • Attorney General • Jimmy Carter • obituary • racism • segregation • US Circuit Court of Appeals

ANALYSIS

GOP Hopeful Belonged to Whites-Only Country Club

Katon Dawson, candidate for RNC chair, resigned from SC club this summer

Nov 25, 08 2:36 PM CST
(Newser) - One of the candidates for chairman of the Republican National Committee belonged for more than a decade to a whites-only country club, Greg Sargent notes on Talking Points Memo. Katon Dawson, chairman of South Carolina’s Republican Party, resigned from the club in September as he was preparing to run... More »

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Barack Obama • RNC • South Carolina • GOP • racism • segregation • chairman • Katon Dawson • Republican Party Chairman

Debate Allows Host Ole Miss to Show Progress on Race

Great strides since deadly '60s riots, but students say university remains divided

Sep 25, 08 10:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Assuming the presidential debate happens tomorrow, host University of Mississippi gets to show the nation it’s moved beyond its racially tinged past, the Los Angeles Times reports. The school, known for deadly riots when the first black student enrolled in the 1960s and controversy over Confederate flags at football... More »

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presidential debate • race relations • segregation • University of Mississippi • campus • South • Dixie

UPDATED

Ex-Senator Jesse Helms
Dead at 86

Conservative icon had been in poor health since retirement

Jul 4, 08 10:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - Jesse Helms, a polarizing figure who represented North Carolina in the US Senate for 30 years before retiring in 2003, died today in Raleigh, the News & Observer reports. He was 86. A pro-segregation TV commentator before entering national politics, the first Republican senator from North Carolina since Reconstruction opposed... More »

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Republican • conservative • North Carolina • Senate Republicans • civil rights • segregation • Senate GOP • Jesse Helms • conservatives

Dutch Hope US Model Will Integrate Schools

Plan was used during American civil rights movement

Jun 19, 08 1:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - Dutch leaders believe an integration program honed during the American civil rights movement can curb the racial and class divisions rampant in Amsterdam’s classrooms. Waves of immigrants have swept into the Netherlands, but they haven’t always mixed successfully with native Dutch, reports the Christian Science Monitor.... More »

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race • parents • Netherlands • school • Amsterdam • segregation • integration • Dutch government

California to End Last Outpost
of Segregation: Prisons

Many expect surge in violence with change

Jun 15, 08 5:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - California will fully integrate its prison system next month, making it one of the last states to do so, the Christian Science Monitor reports. The state will end the practice of separating new arrivals to the nation's largest prison system based on race. Both guards and inmates are bracing for... More »

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California • prison system • segregation • integration • racial tension • California Department of Corrections • segregated prisons • Sierra Conservation Center in Jamestown • University of North Texas

Opinion

The New Segregation:
This Time
It's Political 

The US is dividing into like-minded enclaves

May 26, 08 9:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - The good news? Apathy is on the decline. The bad news? The new political activism is tearing the country apart, writes Gregory Rodriguez in the Los Angeles Times, with political divides turning into geographic ones, too. The country is segregating itself according to politics, moving to areas full of... More »

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partisanship • segregation • political factions • political activism • gerrymandering

 Huckabee: Lay Off
Obama Pastor 

Former minister goes to bat for controversial figure

Mar 20, 08 8:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama got some unexpected help yesterday from Mike Huckabee, of all people. The former candidate called Obama’s speech “historic” and said it wasn’t fair to hold candidates accountable for everything the people near them say, ABC News reports. Huckabee, once a pastor himself, said he understood... More »

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Barack Obama • race • Jerry Falwell • Mike Huckabee • segregation • Jeremiah Wright • Joe Scarborough • pastor • sermon

A Man, Not a Soundbite

Historians fear King's life has been forgotten

Jan 21, 08 4:54 PM CST
(Newser) - In the decades since his death, Martin Luther King Jr. has been transformed from a flesh-and-blood figure into a one-dimensional icon. Historians fear memory has frozen King on the Washington Mall in 1963, reducing him to a soundbite and a “symbol that people use and manipulate for their own... More »

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race relations • history • segregation • Martin Luther King Jr.

Oregon Senator Raises Hackles With Lott Praise

Smith calls seeming pro-segregation remarks 'misconstrued'

Dec 19, 07 7:03 PM CST
(Newser) - Oregon Sen. Gordon Smith is in the doghouse after defending Trent Lott’s infamous 2002 speech waxing nostalgic on Strom Thurmond’s 1948 presidential run. A key Democratic target in 2008, Smith said yesterday that Lott was “misconstrued” as segregationist when suggesting that, had there been a Thurmond administration,... More »

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Trent Lott • Gordon Smith • segregation • blogger • Strom Thurmond

Jena Braces
for Thousands
of Protesters

Locals resent activists, fear violence; tiny LA town will shut down

Sep 20, 07 7:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - Tiny Jena, LA, is bracing for the tens of thousands of activists expected to descend on the town of 3,000 today to protest the handling of six black high school students charged with attempted murder for beating a white classmate in December. Led by the Rev. Al Sharpton, protesters... More »

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race • Al Sharpton • Louisiana • race relations • protests • racism • segregation • Jena Six

Oliver Hill,
Civil Rights Crusader, Dies

Virginia lawyer played key role in Brown v. Board of Education

Aug 6, 07 3:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - Oliver Hill, a Virginia civil rights crusader whose work contributed to the Brown v. Board of Education decision against school segregation, died yesterday at 100. Described as "last lion of the civil-rights movement," Hill was a survivor of D-Day's Omaha Beach landing, and close friends with Justice Thurgood... More »

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race • obituary • school • death • lawyer • civil rights • Thurgood Marshall • Oliver Hill • segregation • integration • US Supreme Court

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