All Posts Tagged With: "segregation"
Black Maverick: T. R. M. Howard’s Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power
Black Maverick is the only biography of Dr. Theodore Roosevelt Mason Howard, whose remarkable life (1908–1976) combined entrepreneurship, medical practice, civil-rights activism against segregation, philanthropy, and high living. He was an irrepressible but flawed character, a man on the make who grew up under Jim Crow and took advantage of the few opportunities that system [...]
25Aug2010 | George C. Leef | 1 comment | ContinuedWhy? Why? Why?
Why is it not enough to oppose racial discrimination and support peaceful social movements against it? Why must one also endorse using government force against what is, after all, nonviolent behavior? (Not all loathsome behavior is violent.) Is endorsement of State force necessary to show one’s bona fides as a humane person? If so, that [...]
23May2010 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedSchool Choice
The overall quality of primary and secondary education received by white students is nothing to write home about. The very fact that 30 percent of college freshmen require remedial education, at a cost of over $2 billion, is pretty good evidence that there is widespread fraud in the conferring of high-school diplomas. That level of [...]
17Jun2009 | Walter E. Williams | 1 comment | ContinuedA Decree Of Racial Inferiority
F. A. Harper is a member of the staff of the Foundation for Economic Education. The decision of the Supreme Court on the issue of segregation in the public schools is commonly being heralded as a body blow at racial discrimination. One not a lawyer should hardly presume to question a legal decision of the [...]
1May1955 | F. A. Harper | 0 comments | Continued-
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