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...thin disguise endured for a half-century, until a series of school-segregation cases culminating in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. "Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal" and violate the Constitution's equal-protection guarantee, a unanimous Supreme Court ruled on May 17, 1954. A year later, the court ruled that school districts must admit black students on a nondiscriminatory basis "with all deliberate speed" and instructed the federal district courts to retain jurisdiction "during this period of transition...
...nosed liberals who specialize in patronage. But these changes are having their consequences. Not only are politicians like Frank Wolfe allowed to speak out, but we are loosing a piece of our city. The political culture that has characterized Boston for decades, separated us from any other Cleveland or Topeka, is slipping away...
...Larger Mission, and Stand Up for Kansas, all of which Grey is welding together. "If it weren't for Tom Grey, the people fighting this in South Dakota and Pennsylvania wouldn't know each other," says Republican Representative Frank Wolf of Virginia, chief sponsor of the study commission bill. Topeka lawyer David Schneider was breathless after Grey's tornado-like tour through Kansas last month. "Tom is an arsonist," he says. "He lights fires, and they spread...
...earlier study, published in The New England Journal of Medicine after 18 years of research, found high mortality rates due to air pollution in six cities: Topeka, Kansas; Portage, Wisconsin; Watertown, Massachusetts; Kingston, Tennessee; St. Louis, Missouri; and Stoubinville, Ohio...
...when Blacks faced seemingly insurmountable segregation in Southern schools, Griswold served as an expert witness in several of the cases used to lay the foundation for the Supreme Court's desegregation order in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka...