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Last week the Supreme Court edged closer to an answer: it ruled that in many instances, local school districts can determine the means for achieving classroom racial balance. The case involved the public schools of De Kalb County, Ga., which were ordered to desegregate in 1969. After that, large numbers of black families moved into the southern part of the county and sent their children to neighborhood schools. Result: more than half of the 33,752 black students attended 90% black schools, while more than a fourth of the 34,692 white pupils were in schools that were 90% white...
...picked up some other nicknames from the family, including the creative "Joe-Nathan." While 'Joe-Nathan" was my dad's attempt at a little humor, my baby sister presented me with a gem of a name-- "Ga-lia-ga"--because she couldn't pronounce "Jonathan. " You go figure the similarity. We've tried for the last 15 years...
...great American music machine still maintains its twin capitals in New York City and Los Angeles, but its epicenter is inclined to shift as frequently and erratically as a tropical depression. Athens, Ga., was the regional rage just . . . well, was it yesterday? And there was Minneapolis only a few years back; before that it was Philadelphia, Detroit, Memphis...
...Bureau of the Census, between Reconstruction and 1910, the literacy rate among Southern blacks climbed from 20% to 70%. "There has always been a strong pressure toward educational achievement," says Mae Kendall, director of elementary education for the Atlanta public schools. Kendall, who grew up in semirural Thomasville, Ga., recalls, "My mother was not a lettered woman by any means, but she said, with a good education, you could turn the world upside down. That was a strong common linkage among all black people, and it was instilled early...
...Ga Rankuwa Township, 8 a.m. Thami Mcerwa, 27, president of the Azanian Youth Organization (AZAYO) -- Azania is what his movement would rename South Africa -- is preparing for another day's work in "the struggle." He spent the night as he usually does: in a four-room matchbox house in Soweto that he shares with his mother, brother and two sisters. Then he made the 50-mile journey north in his battered green Toyota to this black ghetto outside Pretoria...