Sentences with phrase «pushing for desegregation»
From the 1940s onwards, liberal Democrats began pushing for desegregation and civil rights legislation for racial minorities.
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The statement compared the current push for police reform to the desegregation movement of the 1960s.
For the past year, the majority on the board of the 167 - school district have been pushing to return to zoned schooling, essentially eliminating the array of magnet schools and other options created as part of a three decade - long desegregation effort.
Local PUSH president Reverend Dr. William H. Howell stated: «If we must march let us march against the Klan mentally in government, industry and business... We need to march for a workable affirmative action plan, and for the full implementation of the desegregation plan in our school.»