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...kids say they love Pappas. But some advocacy groups, led by the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, say schools for homeless kids are "segregationist" and deny them equal access to education. "The law says homeless children must not be separated from mainstream public schools," says law-center attorney Sarah McCarthy. Her organization is pushing for legislation that would make it harder for schools like Pappas to receive federal funds...
...bombing, four men--Cherry, Blanton, Chambliss and Herman Frank Cash--were considered prime suspects. But according to some officials, witness statements were hard to come by. First there was the fear: If a person were to testify, would there be reprisals? Then there was hopelessness: Would a court in segregationist Alabama really do justice? And then there were the cops. During the '60s, the Klan had ears and eyes and tongues within the local police force. Nonetheless, after two years, FBI agents felt they had a strong case but said J. Edgar Hoover and his senior administrators blocked them from...
...inserting himself into a local tempest over the expulsion of seven high school students for fighting, she sounded a bit like one--the late Leander Perez. "I really resent outsiders coming in and telling us how to run our schools," Goetter whined, conjuring up memories of the legendary segregationist's threat to bury "outside agitators" in the bayous of Louisiana's Plaquemines Parish during the 1960s. It was a lousy choice of words...
...held that "separate but equal" public schools for blacks and whites violated the Constitution. It caused a firestorm as the South vowed "massive resistance" to school integration. When Marshall appeared on NBC's Youth Wants to Know, Georgia stations replaced the show with a taped address by segregationist Governor Herman Talmadge...
...spectacle filled with galling reminders of the G.O.P.'s alliances with anti-black forces. The presiding officer is Chief Justice William Rehnquist, a Republican appointee who had a well-documented early life as a segregationist before his rise to the high court. In the 1960s he was the leader of Operation Eagle Eye, described by the Arizona Republic as "a flying squad of G.O.P. lawyers that swept through south Phoenix to question the right of minority voters to cast their ballots." The man who swore Rehnquist in as presiding officer of the trial, South Carolina Republican Strom Thurmond...