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In 1954, the Supreme Court handed down a unanimous decision in Brown vs Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas, ruling that segregation of schools was unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment. This bolstered the cause of integration. In the same year, however, one powerful U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd, Sr. and his equally influential political organization [...]

The United States will not participate in the UN conference against racism which begins Monday in Geneva, as reported by the US State Department in Washington. Preparations for the conference were made unilaterally on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Washington believes that there are ‘key assumptions’ that can only be resolved in negotiations [...]