Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Board of Education, the landmark Supreme Court case that outlawed segregated public schools. Now, less than a month before the silver anniversary of that decision, Topekans have learned that their school board has quietly paid $19,500 to settle a discrimination suit brought by a ninth-grade student, Evelyn Johnson...
Topeka's blacks, 16% of a 17,000 total student population, are concentrated in schools on the eastern side of the city. Topeka has no mandatory busing for school integration; students are allowed to attend any school they choose. But in 1973 Evelyn Johnson sued for $20,000 in damages, claiming that the Brown decision had never been put into practice in Topeka and that she was receiving an inferior education. Blacks maintain that the Topeka system permits whites to flee second-rate schools in the inner city, leaving behind lower-income nonwhites who cannot afford to travel long...
...board denied any wrongdoing. It insisted that a steady effort had been made since 1954 to change the school-district boundaries and close rundown, largely black schools. Moreover, the board maintained, Johnson was receiving a quality education. But after years of wrangling, the board's guarantors, Insurance Co. of North America, last December offered a settlement to Johnson. Explains I.N.A. Attorney Eugene Ralston: "The basic reason for settling was the enormous expense involved in the litigation. An in ordinate amount of time would have been involved in trying the case, and an appeal would have been likely." To avoid...
Although school-officials believe that the dispute is settled, Johnson's attorney, Fred Phelps, warns that he is "probably going to file a class action suit" seeking damages for all of Topeka's black students as victims of racial discrimination. Says Phelps: "There's not going to be any want of available clients." If such a suit is brought, one thing seems certain. No attempt will be made to keep the outcome secret...
...biggest changes in Congress in recent years is that it is no longer dominated by a few pro-oil titans from petroleum states. The industry still has powerful legislative pals, notably Louisiana Democrat Russell Long, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. But legendary figures like Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn of Texas and Oklahoma's Robert Kerr are long gone. Now the industry has to deal instead with all 535 members of the House and Senate. Explains one leading oil lobbyist: "The industry realizes that it has to speak to everyone and it tries. We let the facts speak...