Word: topeka
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Washburn University in Topeka. Kan., plans were announced for a "College Appreciation Day" to express thanks for education. The Vermont Federation of Young College Republicans announced yesterday that they "totally oppose" the national student strike...
Lawrence was not the only Kansas community to bleed in the new outbreak of violence. Bombings rocked Topeka and Wichita and terrorized the Kansas City area. The ordeal began early this month when a bomb was thrown into the home of Real-Estate Man Miller Nichols, causing damage but no injuries, and continued as bombs damaged a high school, a church and the police academy in Kansas City, Mo. Last week officials in both Kansas City, Kans., and Kansas City, Mo., worked together to keep order in the two cities. They activated the Metro Squad, which includes 40 law-enforcement...
...foundation of the law was laid in 1954 when the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. In it, the court held that officially segregated schools were inherently unequal and therefore unconstitutional. It is often overlooked that the court did not order integration, the conscious mixing of the races in schools. Its ruling was negative: that legally sanctioned, or de jure segregation, which then prevailed throughout the South, is unlawful. All the court's subsequent rulings in the 16 years since have consistently followed this precept of "againstness" rather...
Peter: "I talk. I've got diarrhea of the brain when there's somebody there with a pencil or tape recorder. How many chances do I have to get to the butts out there in Omaha and Kansas City? And Topeka? How many times have I got a chance to hit them and say, 'Hey, we're not free.' Not many. But TIME Magazine. They're not gonna get into that. They want to hear how I've got something rotten to say about Jane or Dad. Or how I've smoked...