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...KCMSD, Missouri v. Jenkins portends a big reduction in the state's extraordinary desegregation payments. For court-ordered desegregation generally, the decision's implications could be dire. Says associate director of the naacp Legal Defense Fund Ted Shaw, who argued the Kansas City case before the high court: "If the courts say unitary status means school districts just have to get to the point where a desegregated snapshot can be taken, and then they can go back to the segregating school assignments they had before--if that's all Brown has done, it's been a big charade...
...white, for neighborhood schools (though these may be more an ideal than a reality for the children of the poor, who tend to move, or be moved, a great deal). And there is a realistic pessimism about the prospects for integration. Says the Legal Defense Fund's Shaw: "My sense is a lot of people are saying, 'We're tired of chasing white folks. It's not worth the price we have...
...flimsy umbrellas breaking in the wind and icy rain, didn't know Brown but knew someone who did or benefited from some project he got off the ground. Jasper Johnson, who passed by the casket early Wednesday morning, cut Brown's hair every two weeks for 20 years in Shaw. It was the neighborhood Brown often frequented, where he dropped off his shoes to be repaired and ate lunch on Saturdays; nearby, he played his weekend basketball games and lived in a split-level town house in an integrated development right where black Washington gives way to white...
...three roommates say they have organized about 50 people, and possibly the Harvard Band, to greet Shaw with banners and a parade at Johnston Gate...
...going for several hundred [people] chanting, 'Welcome back Sam,'" says Jonathan L. Lester '99, one of Shaw's roommates...