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"As the clamor for integration wanes, the fight
for opportunity in the nation's public schools has largely become a battle over
money. The change in legal strategy comes alongside a significant shift in the
tenor of the courts. Just as federal judges have started to look less favorably
on desegregation cases over the last decade or so, state courts have become
more receptive to the argument that money — with or without integration — is
the surest path to equal opportunity. "
MIXED LEGACY: 50
Years After Brown, the Issue Is Often Money, New
York Times, May 17, 2004,
Author: GREG WINTER
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"Fifty years after the Supreme Court banned
school segregation on May 17, 1954, in Brown v. Board of Education, the battle
over the racial composition of America's schools continues in courtrooms across
the country. But in the last few years an unexpected dimension has emerged in
some cases: The combatants have switched places." Long After Brown v. Board of Education, Sides
Switch,New
York Times, May 16, 2004,
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"The Manhattan P.S. 6 is overwhelmingly white and
includes only a smattering of poor students. Its East Flatbush counterpart is
more than 92 percent black, with almost 90 percent of its students from
families with low enough incomes to qualify the children for a free school
lunch. The differences between these schools reflect the state of education in
New York City public schools today, 50 years after the Supreme Court outlawed
legally enforced school segregation in the United States. Despite a far greater
ethnic diversity, with an increasing number of Asian and Hispanic students, New
York City public schools are among the most segregated in the country."
New York Schools: Fifty Years After Brown,
May 05,
2004, Author: Gail Robinson
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"You
can't predict where it's going to happen. But we know that these conditions
will occasionally result in violence," said John Logan, who studies
segregation as head of the Lewis Mumford Center in Albany, N.Y."Fundamentally,
we have to correct the reality that people's chances in black neighborhoods
are unequal to what they could aspire to somewhere else." Benton
Harbor riots serve as warning to other cities, The
Detroit News June 22, 2003 Author: Brad Heath |
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"When
Irwin and Delores Quintyne decided to move from their cramped apartment
in a Harlem housing project to the suburbs in 1961, like many other
blacks from the city they found their way to North Amityville."
Stuck In Last Place, New
York Times, May 4, 2003 Author Vivian S. Toy |
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"In
what is believed to be the first time in Allentown's hsitory, blacks
earned more money than whites at the end of the last decade, according
to new Census figures on median household incomes." From the
Morning Call, mcall.com
Sept. 25, 2002. Author: Edgar Sandoval |
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"Although
the incomes of minorities in metropolitan Milwaukee rose at a faster
rate than whites during the 1990s, the economic chasm between the
races remains deep, according the U.S. Census Bureau figures being
released Wednesday." Racial Gap In Pay Runs Deep, Milwaukee
Journal Sentinel, Sept. 25, 2002. Authors: Dennis Chaptman and
Vikki Ortiz |
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"National
comparisons from the 2000 census aren't yet available, but John Logan,
a sociologist for the State University of New York at Albany who is
analyzing data from metropolitan areas, said a narrowing of white
and minority income levels is happening in much of the country."
Minority Income Gap Narrowing, Census Shows,
The Times-Picayune, Sept.
24, 2002. Authors: Coleman Warner and Matt Scallan |
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"Today, Census
2000 is coughing up one of its central findings: the relative economic
progress of whites and minorities in Minnesota. And some of the findings
will cause some people to blink and rub their eyes." Minnesota
Minorities Mark Big Gains in the '90s, The
Star Tribune, Sept. 17, 2002. Author: David Peterson |
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"The prosperity
of the 1990s brought dynamic change to Seattle neighborhoods, infusing
wealth into areas that had been traditionally poor. Yet, some neighborhoods,
such as downtown and the International District -- which posted among
the highest gains -- were still havens for the have-nots." Census
2000: Seattle's Rich Areas Get Richer, Seattle
Post-Intelligencer, Sept. 17, 2002. Authors: Phuong Cat Le and
D. Parvaz |
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"That blacks
didn't lose ground to whites made the Triangle unusual among metro
areas, said John R. Logan, a sociologist who directs the Lewis Mumford
Center for Comparative Urban and Regional Research in Albany, N.Y."
Racial Divide is Still Apparent on Payday,
The News Observer,
Sept. 10,2002. Author: Richard Stradling |
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"Incomes grew
sharply for most metro Detroiters between 1990 and 2000, but a stubborn
trend persisted: White workers continued to earn more than racial
and ethnic minorities" Metro Incomes Soar, But a Big Gap Exists,
Detroit Free Press, Sept.
10, 2002. Author: Alejandro Bodipo-Memba |
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"The split
is not unique to Washington. But sociologist John Logan of the State
University of New York at Albany, who has studied census figures for
urgan areas...said the District is the city where 'the movement in
the wrong direction is most pronounced.'" A Divided D.C. Poses
Challenge for Next Mayor, Washington
Post, Sept. 9, 2002. Authors: D'Viera Cohn and Craig Timberg |
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"In predicting
patterns of inequality, 'the effect of race is actually greater than
the effect of class, which is quite extraordinary,' said John Logan,
director of the Mumford Center...'You might expect that affluent blacks
should be catching up, but the gap that affluent blacks and poor blacks
face (with whites) is about the same.'" Deepening Divides,
Newsday, Sept. 9 ,
2002. Author: Erin Texeira |
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"Two miles
separate Merriman from North, but by most measures they are worlds
apart. One enjoys a median household income of $86,000, more than
twice the state average. In the other, households get by on $7,000
a year." For Richer, For Poorer, it's Akron - Census Says
Wealthiest Areas are Fairlawn Heights and Merriman. Poverty Soars
Near Downtown Beacon Journal
Sept. 4, 2002. Authors: Paula Schleis and Katie Byard income
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"The newly
released census data offer the first look at income and other demographic
information by neighborhood, allowing a look at the differences between
the lifestyles of the rich and poor." Census Finds a World
of Differences. The Boston Globe
Aug. 27, 2002. Authors: Cindy Rodriguez and Bill Dedman |
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"Communities
that are able to attract a racially and ethnically diverse population
in the same range of social classes are very fortunate, because these
are the best conditions to build relationships across the races,'
said John Logan, (director of State University of New York-Albany's
Lewis Mumford Center, which studies demographic trends)." Black
Ohioans Closing Income Gap, Dayton
Daily News Fall, 2002. Author: Mara Lee and Ken McCall |
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"'How people
do in life doesn't depend entirely on their own income, but what quality
of life they are able to achieve with that income,' said John R. Logan,
professor of sociology (at the State University of New York at Albany)
and director of the university's Lewis Mumford Center..." Among
the Races, Income Gaps Closing Unevenly
The Boston Globe Aug.
27, 2002. Author: Bill Dedman |
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"The suburban
advantage is increasing all around the country," said Logan,
director of the Lewis Mumford Center at the State University of New
York at Albany..."It does show a failure of central cities to
hold the young adult professional class...'" Valley Got Poorer;
Minorities Thriving, Daily
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"Blacks and
Latinos who have seen their paychecks grow are not moving into neighborhoods
comparable in affluence to whites who have the same income, according
to an analysis by the Lewis Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and
Regional Research..."Census: Income Gap A Matter of Degree
- With Less Education, Minorities Lose Ground In Earnings, The
Hartford Courant Aug. 20, 2002 Authors: Mike Swift and Robert
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"The economic
boom of the 1990s bypassed poor minority communities in the city,
as many predominantly black neighborhoods on the South and West Sides
remained mired in poverty as deeply entrenched as a decade earlier,
according to census data released Tuesday." Rich '90s Failed
to Lift All , Chicago
Tribune Aug. 20, 2002 Authors: David Mendell and Darnell Little |
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"'Chicago
was one of the few places where the prosperity gap between the city
and the suburbs closed during the '90s,' said Marc Thomas, senior
planning analyst with the Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission.
'This is part of that. It's good when the wealth is being spread around.'
But the good news was tempered by pockets of poverty..." Lincoln
Park Becomes Wealthiest Community, Chicago
Sun-Times Aug. 20, 2002 Authors: Mark Skertic and Scott Fornek |
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"'Minorities
haven't had much of an opportunity to catch up with their white peers,
and Buffalo's less buoyant economy really has created less opportunity
to make up that difference over time,' said John Logan, director of
the Lewis Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and Regional Research
in Albany. Buffalo Niagara Minorities Fall Further Behind In Economic
Race, Buffalo News Aug. 14,
2002 Author: Jay Rey |
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"Overseas
Imports typifies the corner stores that anchored ethnic neighborhoods
through much of Cleveland history, a bridge between the old world
and the new. What's changed is the address." Census 2000:
Melting Pot Bubbles Over, The
Plain Dealer , June 16,2002 Author: Robert L. Smith income
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