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Today, as he gazes at the Greensboro Historical Museum's sit-in exhibit, complete with four original chrome-and-vinyl stools, Richmond is not frightened. But he is troubled. All around, Richmond sees an enduring legacy of segregation and wonders why things have not improved. "I would've hoped that things would've been better, but they're not getting any better," he laments. "They're getting worse...
...folks at the Center for Creative Leadership, with headquarters in Greensboro, N.C., are giving it a fair shot. At a seminar organized by Stanley Gryskiewicz, a director at the center, trumpeter Bobby Bradford plays Billie's Bounce, then comments on his ensemble: "Everybody knows how many measures there are in this piece. Everybody knows the harmonic sequence. Nobody here is the leader. Everybody's free to make any responsible decision, but we must also deal with surprise. Part of our training is to come out and dance on a slippery floor...
...prime reason for the flurry of regulation is that cigarette bashing has become politically popular. Even such a tobacco bastion as Greensboro, N.C., has an ordinance against smoking in retail stores and other public areas. As a sign of the diminished power of Washington's once feared tobacco lobby, Congress is considering 72 bills to inhibit tobacco use. Kennedy's proposal would create a $185 million Center for Tobacco Products, with broad powers to regulate the industry. His costly plan faces an uphill battle, as does another bill, proposed by Congressman Henry Waxman of California, that would allow only informational...
Mahin Root's father is white; her mother is black. So when the 14-year-old girl tried to register this year as a junior at Page High School in Greensboro, N.C., she faced a problem: a form that asked her to specify her race. Instead of filling in the blank, she left the question unanswered. School officials politely suggested that she make a choice, since the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights requires all public school systems to submit racial data on their students. Mahin, who had attended private schools since moving to Greensboro...
That satisfied school officials, who let Mahin enroll, but not the Washington bureaucrats. They advised Greensboro schools attorney William Caffrey that Mahin should be racially classified by using a "rule of reason" or an "eyeball" test. Caffrey did not consider that helpful. Finally he was told that the Education Department is trying to develop a policy on how to count children of interracial marriages. School officials are now waiting for Washington to apply its own rule of reason...