Apartheid. USA 1988

February 11, 1988:

In a front-page report, the Times announced that the US Government has found that six states fail to meet the goals in desegregation. The Secretary of Education, William J Bennett, acknowledged at a news conferences that six states, plus four others had fallen short of meeting goals and timetables set in 1978 for minority recruitment, faculty hiring and improvement of curriculums and facilities. Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Missouri, Oklahoma and Virginia were only in partial compliance with the Civil Rights Act of

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1964, and in particular with Title VI, which can halt Federal assistance to institutions found to discriminate on the basis of race, color or national origin in programs or activities that receive money from the Education Department. The other four states mentioned were Arkansas, North Carolina, South Carolina and West Virginia. The Governors of the six states defying Title VI have been asked by the Federal Government to submit within 90 days written assurances that each state would implement measures designed to achieve full integration at all educational institutions by the end of 1988.^214.

214. The New York Times, from a report by Lena Williams