Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from the plain-old-ordinary-run-of-the-mill variety. Unlike the neatly piled, sprawling yard of rusted cars and buses depicted in the movie Nashville, or the mountainous heaps of uncategorized wrecks in the swamps east of Baltimore, or the medium-sized backyard and field lots of suburban Boston, the Cambridge yard is severely limited in size. Since the average junkyard here is no larger than a half-acre lot, the junkyard entrepreneur must be a master urban planner. Most Cambridge yards are arranged like a small, corner butcher shop--bumpers hanging along one fence; windshields neatly stacked...
...Supreme Court has not upheld the civil rights lawyers' argument that busing should be required between city and suburban schools in cases where the city schools have a majority of nonwhites. In the celebrated case of Detroit, whose schools are 71.5% black, the Supreme Court reasoned in 1974 that since there had been no complicity between the city and its suburbs to segregate schools, the suburbs could not be forced to help remedy the city's problem. In contrast, a federal appellate court last year found that Louisville and its suburbs had deliberately segregated students and for that reason ordered...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. Tensions ran high when a federal judge ordered cross-district busing to desegregate schools in Charlotte and suburban Mecklenberg County in 1970. Racial fights erupted, sometimes among hundreds of students. One in every six white students transferred to private schools. But whites have gradually if rather grudgingly accepted the busing of 23,000 of the district's 75,000 pupils, in part because there are some limits to the number of years that each pupil will be bused. Lately the racial composition of the merged schools has stabilized at about 35% black. As gauged by national achievement tests...
Next morning, the boys got up at 5:45 a.m. to have breakfast before their father drove them ten blocks to catch a school bus at 6:50 a.m. Then they rode for 40 minutes to cover 16 miles to their new school, Stuart High, in suburban Jefferson County. The bus was pelted with rocks; passing motorists honked horns as a sign of antibusing protest and hurled racial insults. But there was no serious trouble at school, and the Woodses, a black middle-class family with an income of $20,000, felt the ordeal was well worthwhile...
...become a full-time union organizer. On his rounds, he met a Queens teacher named Edith Gerber, whom he made a strike captain and later married ("I organized her," he says). They have three children, aged 10 to 13, and live in a split-level house in suburban Putnam County...