Word: topeka
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Arguing for the negative, a visiting journalist from the Winston-Salem Journal insisted, "Advancement for the Negro can best come gradually." His opponent, Thurgood Marshall, went on to prove him wrong in the year of my father's graduation, successfully arguing before the Supreme Court on behalf of a Topeka schoolgirl named Linda Brown...
...been a series of epic passages: the "Middle Passage" from Africa . . . the long passage through slavery to the Emancipation Proclamation . . . the false dawn of Reconstruction. . . the terrorist Klan era with its night-riding death squads . . . the passage north to South Side Chicago and Detroit and Harlem. . . then Brown vs. Topeka and desegregation and the Martin Luther King era and the Great Society. What is unfolding now may be thought of in years to come as the Jesse Jackson era for black America. Whatever Jackson's role in the journey, the ultimate passage to be accomplished is the internal passage...
...dipped into pork-barrel politics. Among them: Democratic Presidential Candidate Ernest Hollings and Republican Senator Strom Thurmond, both of South Carolina (for fighting to keep Fort Jackson, near Columbia, open); Republican Senator Robert Dole of Kansas (for preventing the closing of a Housing and Urban Development Department office in Topeka); Senate Minority Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia (for protecting a money-losing Amtrak route through his state); Democratic Presidential Contender John Glenn and his Ohio colleague Howard Metzenbaum (for stopping the transfer out of Cleveland of 19 attorneys from the Justice Department's antitrust division...