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...practical terms, that meant simply, desegregate, and quickly. Then, in 1972, the Court told the School Committee in Denver that even though it had never officially enacted any Jim Crow laws, blacks, whites and hispanics had drifted unacceptably to separate school districts anyway, and that, as they say in the courts, mandated redress. Garrity documented a similar situation in Boston, where, to boot, an in-state Racial Imbalance Act had ordered the city to clean up its act as far back as 1965. The School Committee had disobeyed that act. Garrity, in June 1973, said, briefly, obey...
...practical terms, that meant simply, desegregate, and quickly. Then, in 1972, the Court told the School Committee in Denver that even though it had never officially enacted any Jim Crow laws, blacks, whites and hispanics had drifted unacceptably to separate school districts anyway, and that, as they say in the courts, mandated redress. Garrity documented a similar situation in Boston, where, to boot, an in-state Racial Imbalance Act had ordered the city to clean up its act as far back as 1965. The School Committee had disobeyed that act. Garrity, in June 1973, said, briefly, obey...
...Crow notion that separate schools for the races were all right as long as they were equal has, of course, been unconstitutional since the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its landmark 1954 decision on Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (Kans.). Nonetheless, the state of Missouri never got around to deleting a clause from its own constitution calling for "separate schools ... for white and colored children." Last week the state's voters were finally given a chance to do so. With 90% of the tally in, the proposition to kill the clause was passed, but by the surprisingly...
...William Buckley argues in a column to be published this week: "The ideological coloration of one's running mate isn't a part of one's 'philosophy.' It is a matter of adaptation to political reality. Roosevelt had his Garner; Adlai Stevenson his Jim Crow running mate, John Sparkman; John Kennedy his Lyndon Johnson-it is a tradition as old as Jackson and Calhoun." The Buckley line was echoed by other sophisticated political augurs. It did not take into account, however, the fact that Reagan, unlike the other candidates mentioned, had spectacularly insisted on ideological...
...always wise to remember the captain or maitre d' of a top Manhattan restaurant. Though he will curtly accept a tip (usually $2 or $3) as his due, the failure to pay homage may cause him to pursue a departing diner, somewhat like a crow cawing at a hapless cat, with elaborate and sarcastic expressions of thanks; if he has seen your credit card, he may personalize the departure-"Thank you, Mr. Bumblebottom" -practically onto the street...