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What caused all this anger-and may cause a lot more throughout the U.S.-was a landmark decision by U.S. District Judge Robert R. Merhige Jr., who last week ordered Virginia state officials to consolidate the increasingly black (now 69%) school system of Richmond with two surrounding suburban districts that are 91% white. It was the first time a federal court had brushed aside metropolitan boundary lines to bring about racial integration, and it set an unofficial precedent for the merging of other largely black cities with white suburbs. Rulings on similar cases are expected shortly in Detroit, Indianapolis, Grand...
...A.C.P. Joel became the group's second president while Arthur headed its national legal committee. Arthur marched in the streets to protest lynchings, and smashed glasses in the Manhattan saloons that discouraged integrated patronage. Before the bench, however, he epitomized judicial restraint and won eleven landmark legal victories before assuming the N.A.A.C.P. presidency upon Joel's death. Eventually he became the target of militants who sought to purge the organization of its white leadership, resigned in 1966 and became honorary president...
...Your article on the destruction of the Chicago Stock Exchange Building [Nov. 1] was appreciated by all of us who worked so hard to save this landmark...
...adult tolerances. It certainly fit our attention spans much better than Dickens and, to be candid, we were not above its nihilism. But our liking for The Bald Soprano was not the product of our baser thirteen year old instincts. After a childhood of Dick and Jane and Landmark hero stories it was delightful to read lonesco. The nonsensical alliteration, the rapid non-sequitur of outrageous cliches and, most of all, the abandonment of oppressive logic was wonderful for our stunted Junior High School minds. It was our first taste of intellectual mirth...
...landmark ruling the Supreme Court yesterday unanimously barred arbitrary discrimination against women by legislation...