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Sultan, 33, a mid-career student at the KSG, decided last week that he would run against 20-year incumbent Jim Kolbe for Arizona’s District 8 Congressional seat...
...black institutions, from elementary schools to East Topeka High, have been closed up or torn down, and their students dispersed throughout the district. Behind the Gothic facade of Topeka High, the city's largest high school, a racially diverse blend of students (at 61% white, 20% black, 14% Latino and 5% other, it approximates the district's ethnic breakdown) intermingles on the football field, in the cafeteria and on the broad plaza outside the school. This year, it so happens, all four class presidents are Latino. Small victories like these have led black and white Topekans to declare the integration...
Despite the Supreme Court's ruling three years later, county supervisors refused to fund public schools serving all races. When a federal district court reaffirmed Brown in 1959, Prince Edward chained its schools' doors. White families attended a new private school in the county, with scholarships for those who couldn't afford it. Black families like Moseley's either sent their children away to stay with relatives or studied in small groups in churches and homes. Many simply went without schooling at all, as Moseley did at first. After two years of sitting at home, Moseley got an opportunity...
...heroes, Elliott knows, were the black families in Summerton who filed the lawsuit Briggs v. Elliott contesting the school district's discriminatory treatment of their children. It was the first of the four cases to be heard that would be combined in the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision outlawing school segregation. The white community's response was hostile. Harry and Eliza Briggs, who lived in a cabin on the Elliott estate, were fired from their jobs and had to move to Florida to find new work. Other black families who signed the Briggs' petitions...
Greece shrugged, but the rest of the world shuddered. The three bombs that went off just before dawn in the Athens district of Kallithea last Wednesday gutted one side of a police station, shattered windows up and down a leafy suburban street and jarred residents from their predawn slumber - but they did not faze Maria Moirani. The Athenian housewife calmly dropped off her 8-year-old son at a nearby school that same morning. "I could have made more elaborate bombs than these guys," she scoffed. Athens sees scores of such attacks a year; Mary Bossi, a terrorism expert...