Word: urbanity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...things have come to in the latter days of school desegregation in Kansas City. For the sake of desegregation, blacks are sometimes barred from the most popular schools on account of their race, lest they tilt the enrollment too far from the goal of 35% white students. Like most urban systems, the Kansas City, Missouri, School District (KCMSD) has lost white students to the suburbs in droves, which has made the task of achieving racial balance nearly impossible. After deciding that inner-city students could not be bused out to the suburbs as part of a mandatory desegregation plan...
...work, whites have streamed out--in search of greener lawns and whiter neighbors. Anytime blacks were able to breach the wall of restrictive covenants, brokers' steering and mortgage redlining to begin to integrate a neighborhood, white flight and resegregation quickly followed. By 1970, with the white birthrate plunging, Northern urban school districts, which seldom extend beyond city limits, lacked enough white children to desegregate...
...largest Northern metropolitan areas, blacks had become so isolated that 78% of them would have had to move in order to achieve an evenly distributed residential pattern. The Milliken ruling, says Indiana University's Brown, "eliminated all hope of meaningful desegregation in most of the country's major urban areas...
...Rouse to try a similar restoration job at Baltimore's Inner Harbor. Harborplace, which opened in 1980, had its detractors (a critic called it "Atlantic City's boardwalk with a touch of Disneyland"), but it helped revitalize Baltimore's downtown and secured Rouse's place as the most influential urban developer of his time...
JACK E. WHITE, a TIME national correspondent and columnist, first met Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown about 20 years ago, when Brown was working for the National Urban League. "He was very smooth and very, very savvy," says White. "You knew even then he was going to end up someplace important." The two stayed in touch. "I last saw him at a Christmas party," he says. "He talked to my wife, and he gave her the impression that we were a lot tighter than we were. He made people feel he valued their friendship." White had the sad task...