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...Officers were sent to Massachusetts Hall to assist an individual with gaining entry to the building. When they arrived, they detected a strong odor on the individual and found a Class D substance. They placed Robert Anderson, 40, of Wilmington, Mass., under arrest for marijuana possession...
...Brown decision was actually a ruling on a combination of cases in four communities--Topeka; Clarendon County, S.C.; Prince Edward County, Va.; and Wilmington, Del. (Another school desegregation case, in Washington, was decided separately that same day.) TIME revisited each of the four for this anniversary, finding in some places deep disappointments and in others astounding gains. --By Rebecca Winters
When a yellow school bus rumbles by on busy Interstate 95 in Wilmington, Del., it ticks Wayne Smith off. Since he was first elected to Delaware's state legislature in 1990, Smith, 41, has crusaded to end this small city's unusual urban-suburban busing program, which was imposed by court order in 1978. Educators say the program has helped make Delaware's schools among the nation's most integrated. Smith says it has driven families out of public education and broken the color-blind promise of Brown. "Having grown up here, I just thought it was wrong to break...
...decades after Brown, as desegregation proceeded slowly and nonviolently in Delaware, white families began abandoning Wilmington for the suburbs. But by the time Smith was a high school junior in what he calls a "lily-white" neighborhood less than a mile from where he lives now, a federal court had ordered Wilmington's New Castle County to comply with one of the most invasive busing orders in the country--a plan that reorganized its 11 school districts into four systems, each of them part urban and part suburban. Under the order, all students had to attend school for three years...
...Delaware has one of the highest private-school attendance rates in the country, at 19%--and that number started its climb just as busing began. In Brandywine, the district where Smith's children attend school, 26% of families opt for private schools. In 1995 a federal judge ruled that Wilmington had achieved integration and lifted the court order. But by then much of the earlier tension had abated, and the four districts continued busing...