Word: businger
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Topeka's blacks, 16% of a 17,000 total student population, are concentrated in schools on the eastern side of the city. Topeka has no mandatory busing for school integration; students are allowed to attend any school they choose. But in 1973 Evelyn Johnson sued for $20,000 in...
Glazier suggested apartheid is "perhaps the wrong issue to be taking about--It's an easy issue. The question of busing is much tougher, but it's also an area where you might have more impact," Glazier said.
Their frustration was apparent at the Klan rally. There were about 100 people there, including the wives and children who munched hot dogs and sipped cokes while they watched the white-robed menfolk mill around the farm. To an outsider, they were fascinating, evoking both pity and horror; it is...
Moreover, as Kaufman argues, "it is not enough for justice to be declared. The judge must assure that justice is done." That is why judges get involved in decreeing drastic remedies, as in many school-busing decisions. Usually, a court does not start off by telling the state what to...
For Brill, the Teamsters are a metaphor for American society. The Harold Gibbons chapter that closes the book brings this out even more than the stories of the two rank'n'filer Teamsters. Gibbons was a socialist St. Louis Teamster leader, who pioneered in providing his members with a food...