Word: unequalled
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While this economic chasm is highly visible, the Commonwealth also harbors a more subtle inconsistency in perspective. Those who live on the inside of Route 495 have a unique conception of Massachusetts. Ultimately, it is this difference that allows unequal economic development to continue.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, many civil rights activists thought that their jobs were done. Having crushed the system of segregation, they believed that equality and racial prejudice would soon follow. Unfortunately, proponents of prejudice have moved into academia, as their forbears did in the late 19th century...
But the 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...
Before we gave up on integration, we should have tried it. Instead, for the past 40 years, we played a shell game with desegregation in which blacks chased after whites who would not stand still long enough to be integrated with. The result: public schools so separate and vastly unequal...
JAMES S. KUNEN, the author of this week's disquieting cover story on resegregation, has been writing vividly about social issues since, at 19, he penned The Strawberry Statement, a best-selling account of Columbia University's 1968 student strike against the Vietnam War. A TIME contributor since last October...