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Lessons about inventor George Washington Carver or slave rebellion leader Nat Turner no longer will be relegated to the 28 days of February — or to black history classes — in Maryland public schools, but will shape the foundation of an expansive new curriculum. Students will learn about blacks' contributions to society in a variety of classes — such as science, music, language arts and American history — in a new, year-round curriculum called "An African American Journey," state school officials said yesterday.

BERLIN, Nov 19 (AFP) - German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder called on Muslims to better integrate themselves in German society, in extracts of a speech he will deliver on Saturday released early to two major newspapers here. Schroeder warned of a "conflict of cultures" and says Muslims "must clearly and without misunderstanding demonstrate that they accept our legal order and democratic rules."

The first step in resolving obstacles is to identify the problems. 1. Pre-Integration The black community before integration was equal to the burrows in New York. There was a sense of community pride and each subsection had its leaders including doctors, lawyers, scientist, and business owners to name a few. The community also had its “Gangs of New York” type people, but they were outnumbered and not respected, and managed accordingly. And just like the burrows in New York, no family amassed a lot of money but there was a natural respectful hierarchy of leaders. 2. The Effects of Integration...

While May marked the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court's historic decision in Brown v. Board of Education ruling racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional, last month was the 30th anniversary of a ruinous exercise in judicial hubris partly inspired by the moral success of Brown: Federal Judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr.'s decision ordering that the Boston public schools be desegregated, through a plan heavily reliant on mandatory busing, beginning in the fall of 1974. Whereas the Brown decision aimed to erase the moral stain of legally mandated segregation, Garrity's ruling was grounded in a vision of remaking society by...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -- President Bush marked a half-century of school integration at the symbolic home of the movement Monday, saying "it changed America for the better, and forever." "Fifty years ago today, nine judges announced that they had looked at the Constitution and saw no justification for the segregation and humiliation of an entire race," Bush said at the opening of a national historic site at Monroe Elementary, a former all-black school in the heartland of the school desegregation effort. "Here on the corner of 15th and Monroe, and in schools like it across America, that was a day...

President Bush spoke Monday to mark the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, decision that ended racially segregated schools. He greeted the fueling squadron on the way in, and greeted the Air National Guard troops on the way out of the airport at Topeka, Kansas.

Black Activist Group Speaks Out on Legacy of Brown Desegregation Decision 5/17/2004 6:00:00 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National Desk Contact: David Almasi of Project21, 202-371-1400 ext. 106 or Project21@nationalcenter.org WASHINGTON, May 17 /U.S. Newswire/ -- In observance of the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Brown v. Board of Education school desegregation decision, members and staff of the Project 21 African-American leadership network are available for comment. On Monday, May 17, Project 21 director David Almasi will be addressing the Brown legacy on the CNNfn program "Market Call" at approximately 9:50 am eastern. In addition, Almasi is the...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Linda Brown had no idea she was making history in the fall of 1950 when her father, the Rev. Oliver Brown, took her by the hand and marched her to an all-white school near her home. Several other black parents in Topeka also tried to enroll their children in all-white schools that fall. Their requests were denied, laying the groundwork for a legal case that would overturn segregated education nationwide 50 years ago Monday. In the years since, Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education has been a blessing and a burden for the Brown family: A...

May 17, 1954 -- half a century ago -- saw one of the most momentous decisions in the history of the Supreme Court of the United States. Some observers who were there said that one of the black-robed Justices sat on the great bench with tears in his eyes. The case was of course Brown v. Board of Education, and the decision declared that racially segregated schools were unconstitutional. In rapid succession, all kinds of other racial segregation, which were common across most of the South and even in some border states, were likewise declared unconstitutional. This was a reversal...

The Defense Department has been working on plans over the past year to integrate the business operations of the services' separate exchanges. The result, if approved by Congress, should remain transparent to customers, according to a senior Pentagon official. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz's May 9, 2003, memorandum called for "a single optimized Armed Service exchange system" for DoD that would require a detailed plan and coordination with Congress. Oversight of the initiative to integrate the Army and Air Force Exchange Service, the Marine Corps Exchange and Navy Exchange operations was assigned to Principal Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Personnel...

Defense Department officials tried to put DoD's best foot forward in attracting minority students to seek careers in the department at Florida A&M University here Feb. 18-19. DoD held a career exposition Feb. 18 for middle school, high school and college students to see presentations and visit exhibits set up by the military academies, ROTC programs and civilian internship programs. Feb. 19 featured a symposium, during which DoD officials discussed critical minority representation issues in ROTC and internship programs, as well as long-term concerns, with presidents of Historically Black Colleges and Universities and other minority-education leaders. Charles S. Abell, principal...

The group charged with putting together a detailed plan to integrate the three military exchange services into one organization has launched a Web site. The Unified Exchange Task Force, formed in May, is using the new site to inform exchange beneficiaries on what is happening to their important benefit, explained retired Air Force Maj. Gen. C.J. Wax, task force director and former commander of the Army and Air Force Exchange Service. "This Web site provides a one-stop source of information and a place where beneficiaries can get their questions answered," he pointed out. According to a news release, the site...

The murder of a teacher in The Hague by a student of Turkish origin earlier this week has intensified the debate on the failed integration of many immigrants in the Netherlands. The Christian Democrat Prime Minister Jan-Peter Balkenende said the killing was not an isolated incident, but a sign that there is a serious cultural problem. He said a large number of youths of foreign origin have little understanding of Dutch morals and values. Social Democrat leader Wouter Bos also admitted that the integration of foreign minorities has failed. The politician Pim Fortuyn sky-rocketed in the opinion polls two years...

DURHAM -- If Sunday morning at 11 o'clock is, as Martin Luther King Jr. famously said, the most segregated hour in America, 11 o'clock on any weekday morning is the most segregated part of the day at Durham's Northern High School. Lunchtime at the 1,600-student school is when, students say, the school's cafeteria takes on a rigid racial geography. Black students occupy most of the tables in the upper tier of the rectangular room, groups of white students generally gather on the lower tier, and the school's small but growing Hispanic population congregates at tables here and there. "This table...

Hi, everyone. Just asking if anyone has any links or citations for articles dealing with women in the military. I have to do an issue portfolio for my Politics of Sexuality class (ugh), and this is the topic I've chosen. The problem is, everything is read is all women in military GOOD, more places now, etc, etc, with little, if any opposing viewpoints. Anything and everything would be appreciated. Thanks in advance

The Atlantic Monthly | September 2003 The Agenda People Like Us We all pay lip service to the melting pot, but we really prefer the congealing pot by David Brooks ..... aybe it's time to admit the obvious. We don't really care about diversity all that much in America, even though we talk about it a great deal. Maybe somewhere in this country there is a truly diverse neighborhood in which a black Pentecostal minister lives next to a white anti-globalization activist, who lives next to an Asian short-order cook, who lives next to a professional golfer, who lives next...

<p>BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) &#8212; President Eisenhower was launching his re-election bid in 1956 when black schoolchildren here embarked on what has become the nation's oldest school-desegregation lawsuit.</p> <p>Now, nearly a half century later, a judge who keeps the original, yellowed papers in a vault is set to bring the case to a close with a long-awaited settlement.</p>

ARIS, July 31 — Since the French Revolution, she has been the idealized embodiment of freedom, a supposedly immortal figure that nevertheless gets a new look every once in a while."Marianne" has been modeled on actresses like the sultry Brigitte Bardot and the coolly beautiful Catherine Deneuve, and on supermodels like Inès de la Fressange and Laetitia Casta, the current incarnation. In 1830, Eugène Delacroix painted her bare-breasted, a rifle in one hand, the French flag in the other, as she led a crowd on the barricades. But the face of France is changing. This month, 13 women, eight of...

-- Attorney General John Ashcroft says the nation is better off due to the courage of a black man who was able to "push his potential past hatred and bigotry" in 1962. That's when James Meredith entered the University of Mississippi after federal orders came for integration. Ashcroft today honored Meredith at the Justice Department, along with former U-S marshals who stood guard at the university so Meredith could enter. Ashcroft says 127 marshals stood shoulder-to-shoulder for nine hours without wavering, despite being confronted by an angry and violent crowd. Under the Eisenhower and Kennedy presidencies, marshals were ordered to...