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...Supreme Court's 1954 decision in Brown against Board of Education of Topeka held that a state violates the clause if it denies any child admission to any of its public schools on account of the child's race. Over the past decade, the federal courts and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare have turned their backs on the mandate of the 1954 Supreme Court decision--that race be eliminated as a determinant in assigning children to public schools...
...this case is to be presented before the Supreme Court. Twenty years after the court (in Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka) declared segregation by law to be unconstitutional, the court is again faced with a decision that touches at the foundations of American society. Is a desegregated system within the city limits enough or must the entire metropolitan area be included if otherwise the city proper would remain identifiably black...
Protect the players, Mr. Watson, hell--try to imagine, if you will, the following scenario: Early yesterday evening in Wigglesworth Hall a freshman named John made his weekly call home to Topeka. "Hi Mom, Hi Dad, boy have I got a lot to tell you. For openers, I just got out of the hospital and I don't have a left ear anymore...
...Topeka, Kans...
...their seats in horror. Now Peter Simon II, 22, a casino owner from Jean, Nev., who saw the movie three times, has become the proud owner of the actual death car, a Ford V-8 sedan that Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow stole in 1934 from a farm in Topeka. (Barrow wrote Henry Ford I: "I drove Fords exclusively when I could get away with one. For sustained speed and freedom from trouble, the Ford has got every other car skinned." Its new owner plans to exhibit the sedan, still bloodstained and riddled with 160 bullet holes...