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<text id=90TT0506>
<title>
Feb. 26, 1990: American Notes:Civil Rights
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Feb. 26, 1990 Predator's Fall
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
NATION, Page 38
American Notes
CIVIL RIGHTS
Storm Over The Schools
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<body>
<p> Twenty-five years ago, in Selma, Ala., club-wielding police
attacked civil rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Now
the city of 27,000 is again experiencing racial turmoil. Last
week 150 black high school students boycotted classes to protest
the school board's failure to renew the contract of black
Superintendent Norward Roussell. Governor Guy Hunt ordered
National Guardsmen to protect students who went to school
despite the boycott.
</p>
<p> In three years at the helm of the 70% black school system,
Roussell alienated whites by, among other things, revising the
"tracking" system that had long channeled black students into
lower-level courses. After the board's six white members voted
to get rid of Roussell last December, five black board members
quit in protest. Last week's boycott ended after five days, when
Roussell appealed to the students to return to class. But
biracial talks to determine his future broke down with no
resolution of the impasse.
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</body>
</article>
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