Word: suchness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whatever else it may possess or lack, a great city cannot be dull. It must have a sense of place and a feeling all its own, and its citizens must be different from and more vital than those who live elsewhere. The difference does not even have to be in...
Now that the Supreme Court has decreed an immediate end to racial segregation in Southern public schools, many white resisters have only one place left to turn: private white "segregation academies." In recent years, the South has blossomed with more than 200 such schools, which are set up for the...
As a result, the schools often use retired or uncertified teachers, who are almost always paid less than the going public school rate. The range of the curriculum tends to be narrow. Such semiessentials as labs, libraries and gymnasiums are frequently lacking. Accreditation is hard to come by, and graduates...
Love of Learning. Sandy Run Academy opened this fall, and immediately added primary grades by merging with a private elementary school in nearby Gaston. The merged schools have 150 students, all white, of course, and almost all from Lexington County. They pay $300 a year tuition, plus $25 for books...
Since tuition alone cannot pay the bills at Sandy Run, the difference is being made up through contributions, solicitation by teachers and benefit parties-such as the "Harvest Carnival" recently staged by the Ladies Auxiliary, which netted the school $500. Sandy Run's eleven teachers are paid a maximum...