Word: topeka
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...Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., sent a dozen protesters--half of them children--to the Boston area to demonstrate their opposition to homosexuality...
...Anytime anybody nowadays in this atmosphere and climate asks a question about the propriety of this filthy thing called homosexuality, they're demonized and called a hate monger," Phelps said in an interview from Topeka last month...
Glynn Tipton, for example, is expected to testify that he talked with McVeigh at a drag race in Topeka, Kansas, and that McVeigh was seeking two bombmaking chemicals. Frederick Alan Schlender, the manager of the Mid-Kansas Coop in McPherson, Kansas, will testify that on Sept. 30, 1994, someone closely resembling Nichols bought 40 bags of ammonium nitrate, weighing 50 lbs. apiece. On Oct. 18, Schlender has said, he bought another 50 lbs. During a pretrial hearing in February, Schlender testified that the man "said he was a wheat farmer. It was an unusual transaction. It wasn't common...
...integrate the public schools." This month the Harvard Project on School Desegregation issued an alarming update: the 1991-94 period, the latest for which statistics are available, saw the largest shift back toward segregation for blacks since the landmark 1954 desegregation decision Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. And black students are not the only ones to suffer increasing isolation. Notes education professor Gary Orfield, co-author of the study: "One of our most sobering findings is that the group that is going to become the predominant minority population in this country, the Latinos, is even more isolated than...
...study, "Deepening Segregation in American Public Schools," reports that 1991-94 saw the largest movement toward segregation between racial groups since the 1954 school desegregation decision, Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education...