Word: milliken
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...dearth of whites led a federal court to order the city of Detroit to integrate its schools with those of 53 surrounding districts. In 1974 the Supreme Court struck down that order, holding in Milliken v. Bradley that suburban districts could not be ordered to help desegregate a city's schools unless those suburbs had been involved in illegally segregating them in the first place. Justice Thurgood Marshall warned in dissent that the court had set a course that would allow "our great metropolitan areas to be divided up each into two cities--one white, the other black...
...neighborhoods served by predominantly minority schools. Detroit's public school system is now 94% minority. By 1990, in the 18 largest Northern metropolitan areas, blacks had become so isolated that 78% of them would have had to move in order to achieve an evenly distributed residential pattern. The Milliken ruling, says Indiana University's Brown, "eliminated all hope of meaningful desegregation in most of the country's major urban areas...
...most economists. C. Fred Bergsten, director of the Institute for International Economics, figures that export jobs pay about 15% to 20% more than nonexport jobs. He adds, "Whatever Buchanan saves for Roger Milliken [a major textile employer] in South Carolina, he loses for Boeing," which is heavily dependent on aircraft exports. "And Boeing jobs pay so much more than textile jobs that this would be a net loss...
...tape transcripts, internal memos and other records show GOPAC quite openly declaring its stake in federal races. "Action alerts," "phonegrams" and other solicitations repeatedly ask contributors for money to help win control of the House. In a letter to textile magnate Roger Milliken, GOPAC chairman Howard ("Bo") Callaway invited the Republican financier to a Washington meeting and vowed, "We will be looking at plans to recruit and support candidates in 210 congressional districts across the country...