By Frank A. Campbell
It’s the kind of birthday you can easily forget. It’s not in your diary; there’s no reminder on your cellphone. There will be no parties, no flowers, no media coverage. Not even an exhibition at the national museum.
Yet, there’s value in remembering that 50 years ago, on Tuesday, April 6, 1965,
Prime Minister L. F. S. Burnham asked the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) to conduct an impartial inquiry into racial imbalance in “all significant areas of governmental activity and all other areas of public life in which the racial imbalance may be harmful to the welfare of the