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...black families, not the enraged white Southerners and Midwesterners, not the curious onlookers in the Northeast and the West--would have guessed the way race relations in America would evolve a half-century later. For 50 years after the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans., that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal," the most integrated schools in the U.S. are in the South. The most segregated are in New York and California. The federal courts--once the preferred tool of integrationists-- have become a major force in the resegregation of schools. And the formerly...
...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
...springtime of 1954, when news of the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board ruling rippled out like an earthquake, one of those who felt the world shifting was Robert McFrazier. Then a 10-year-old student in an all-black school in Muskogee, Okla., 250 miles away from Topeka, whose school board was the name defendant in the case, McFrazier still recalls the hopefulness of that day: "When the principal announced the decision, a spontaneous roaring cheer came up. We were caught up in the excitement of thinking that things were going to be better, that we were going...
...black institutions, from elementary schools to East Topeka High, have been closed up or torn down, and their students dispersed throughout the district. Behind the Gothic facade of Topeka High, the city's largest high school, a racially diverse blend of students (at 61% white, 20% black, 14% Latino and 5% other, it approximates the district's ethnic breakdown) intermingles on the football field, in the cafeteria and on the broad plaza outside the school. This year, it so happens, all four class presidents are Latino. Small victories like these have led black and white Topekans to declare the integration...
...invariably, profoundly yes. NASA and its quest to fufill its mission represents all that is highest and most noble in the panorama of human possibilities and conditions. To dream and to strive to realize a dream is to understand and share the most fundimental thoughts of God. Christopher Smythe Topeka, Kans...