Word: appalachia
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With World War II, the city underwent the first phase of an amazingly swift transformation. The war brought an influx of poor blacks from the South and poor whites from Appalachia to work in the city's shipyards and aircraft plants. Postwar prosperity, good roads and the rise of the suburban dream triggered an exodus of middle-class whites to adjacent Baltimore County, a migration hastened by the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision, in which the court ruled that segregated schools were unconstitutional. By last year, black children accounted for 85.1% of the city's total...
...just this month Chelsea got a small taste of gotcha journalism. In the midst of a summer of building houses in Appalachia with her church group and taking ballet lessons, the Sidwell Friends senior went off with her mother the first week in August to tour Amherst, Brown, Harvard, Princeton, Wellesley and Yale. One evening they dined at the Spoleto Restaurant in Northampton, Massachusetts. Two glasses of wine were ordered. The pasta was barely digested before the local paper reported that the underage Chelsea had been drinking. For two days the Boston airwaves and papers buzzed with Chardonnaygate. The state...
...some cases, basing competition on race just doesn't work," David L. Boggs '98 says. "There's always the case of the rich Black kid from New York City beating out the poor white kid from Appalachia. That's not fair...
...received her award for her community service in Appalachia, where she worked as a youth counselor and helped develop a program for the elderly...
...nation's poorer areas, however -- places like Washington's Anacostia neighborhood, the hollows of Appalachia or Miami's Liberty City -- families with IBM Activas, NEC CD-ROM drives, modems, Internet connections and all the other paraphernalia so beloved by computer users are few and far between. Therein lies one of the most troubling aspects of the emerging information age. In an era in which success is increasingly identified with the ability to use computers and gain access to cyberspace, will the new technology only widen the gap between rich and poor, educated and uneducated, blacks, whites and Hispanics? As Commerce...