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Shirley J. Crenshaw...
...purse snatchings occur with depressing regularity in many-though obviously not all-of the nation's city schools. Declares Los Angeles' Principal Sid Thompson: "For teachers and students alike, the issue unfortunately is no longer learning but survival." His own high school is known as "Fort Crenshaw" because of its steel mesh fence, armed guards and classroom doors that lock from the inside. Not even such Draconian measures have left Crenshaw free of violence. Last month a gang climbed over the fence, tore off a student's jacket and severely beat...
Some educators sadly observe that elaborate security arrangements only shift the scene of the crimes elsewhere. "It's a community problem," says Crenshaw Principal Thompson. "We can secure the schools, but that doesn't secure the communities." Perhaps not, but it is certainly an important first step...
...first, held in early August, was mainly valuable as a theatrical production. The name of the suit--The United States of America vs. The United Klans of America--hinted what kind of an affair it would be. An inexperienced Justice Department lawyer brought a parade of 50 residents of Crenshaw County, Ala., to the stand and had them tell what the Klan had been doing to keep Freedom of Choice from working in the county's schools...
...evidence was juicy. Black parents told of cross-burnings, huge KKK's painted on their houses, midnight Klan rallies, and assorted other harrassments designed to keep black kids out of white schools. A few reluctant white witnesses, appearing under Federal subpoena, grudgingly admitted that the white citizens of Crenshaw County had circulated a petition to enforce an economic boycott against all black families who integrated the schools...