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...deep were these changes that both Warren and the "activist" court that bore his name inevitably became national issues. The far-reaching decisions on racial discrimination and individual rights, beginning with the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka school desegregation ruling of 1954, were applauded by civil libertarians-and just as vigorously denounced by a variety of critics. Segregationists and John Birchers put up billboards demanding IMPEACH WARREN; religious traditionalists protested the court's 1962-63 bans on classroom prayers and urged the court to "put God back in the schools." Law-and-Order Candidate Richard Nixon invariably...
Last week's 20th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in the case known as Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was filled with ironies...
...ruling ushered in a generation of anguished testing and advances of the idea of equality. Yet in Topeka, Kans., in 1954, the parents of Linda Brown, an eleven-year-old black girl, had mere ly sought the right for her to attend a segregated white school in her own neighborhood, and the court upheld them. Since Brown, the complexities of desegregation have been transformed into the volatile issue of metropolitan busing. Opponents argue - on behalf of the neighborhood school - that children should not be forced to attend schools miles from their homes merely to achieve racial balance. In the same...
...department has already moved to contest license renewals of TV stations that are owned by companies that also have papers in Des Moines, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Minneapolis and Topeka, and it plans to challenge renewals in other markets as well. Joint owners are digging in on the argument that the Justice proposal would, as Broadcast magazine put it, "add few new public voices at the exorbitant price of wholesale dislocation in media operations." How the FCC will respond, after having dodged the issue for six years, remains to be seen...
...symposium on issues relating to school desegregation will be held at the Law School tomorrow and Thursday to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas...