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...home, which sold for $49,700 in 1989, now sells for $84,200. The pretty downtown brick buildings, hollowed and haunted in the '80s, are being turned into stores with condo apartments on top. "In 1990 I don't remember one ribbon cutting for a new business," says David Milliken, president of the Chillicothe-Ross Chamber of Commerce. "Lately we've had about one every month...
...rich coat of the North Woods looks like it has mange. In the past five years, softwoods such as spruce and fir have been chopped down at a pace almost double their rate of growth. "There is no question that clear-cutting was overused," concedes Roger Milliken, one of the most progressive of the large landowners...
...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...
...Milliken v. Bradley decision laid the groundwork for today's desegregation conundrum. Had Boston's federal district court been able to embrace the school systems of such storied American communities as Concord and Lexington, there would have been more whites with whom to integrate and less criticism that Judge Arthur Garrity's order did little more than mix "poor blacks" with "poor whites." But it would be naive to imagine that most suburban whites would obediently put their children on the bus to the inner city. Suburban families might have thrown fewer rocks than did the working-class whites...