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Among other services, Blake and Cohen hope that this year's CLC will provide a more efficient shuttle service to Logan Air-port before holidays, a Spring Fling dance for sophomores and juniors, and busing to the Yale game.
Beginning this fall, members will run afterschool workshops on diversity at Charlestown High School, which was depicted in the Pulitzer-Prize-winning tome Common Ground by former Crimson executive J. Anthony Lukas '54 as the site of anti-busing unrest during the 1970s.
Given that, the book argues, the law should have gone no further than the civil rights acts of 1964 and 1965 and the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education case. Had reform ended there, the Thernstroms say, the American people would have done away with de facto segregation...
But these dissenting voices in the N.A.A.C.P. reflect a growing view in the broader African-American community that resources poured into desegregation might be better spent on improving the predominantly nonwhite schools most black children attend. In the past few years black school officials from Seattle, Washington, to the suburbs...
But apostate members like Kenneth W. Jenkins would welcome any attention to their position that the N.A.A.C.P. should concentrate on schools in black neighborhoods. Jenkins was formally removed from the presidency of the Yonkers, N.Y., branch by the national N.A.A.C.P.'s directors last year because he had proclaimed that "busing...