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Peabody School, for example, has the aura of a school for the affluent academic children even now, although as fourth grader Chloe A. Kandall says. "There is a mix of all different kids...
...began. Though the district had faded badly from its heyday in the 1940s, when it ranked among the most vibrant black communities in the nation, it still had movie theaters, nightclubs and scores of thriving businesses. True, schools were slipping, crime was getting worse and some of the more affluent residents had moved away. But most of the area's hardworking families had no intention of abandoning one of the few relatively decent places in racially divided Washington that blacks could call their...
...unprecedented membership decline in old-line Protestant churches inspired Roof to delve more deeply into the subject. These affluent, predominantly white, relatively liberal denominations date from colonial times and long controlled America's spiritual and cultural values. Now they are on the defensive, losing members and influence. Meanwhile, churches on either side of the spiritual spectrum are growing fast: the conservative evangelical Protestantism on one hand and an assortment of Eastern, New Age and unconventional religions on the other...
...Part of the ideology about schools is that they will be good only if there is a plentiful supply of affluent white students," Willie says. "My experience is that that is not the basis of good schools...
...argues that those who oppose his plan tend to come from the city's more affluent racial groups and economic classes...