Sentences with phrase «white suburb on»

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It's a story based on events not in the deep South, but in the Pennsylvania suburb of Levittown, when William and Daisy Myers moved their family into the all - white community and were rocked by riots, threats and violence that lasted throughout the summer of 1957.

Then a child's education would not depend on whether she was born in the poorest white rural section of southern Ohio or the richest white suburb of New England.

That pitch came from the left arm of Ross Baumgarten, a junior high school classmate in a suburb north of Chicago, who went on to pitch for the hometown White Sox and Pittsburgh Pirates.

While the national political debate continues to swirl around the state of the economic recovery, five Republicans with their eyes on the White House spent the evening in a Des Moines suburb pitching themselves to the evangelical Christians who dominate the Hawkeye State's crucial first - in - the - nation caucuses.

In affluent white - collar suburbs around Atlanta, Philadelphia, Chicago, and San Francisco, sprawling charismatic churches pack in crowds on Sunday mornings numbering in the thousands.

On another level, the sex is more subtle: Identify with the nice, normal - sized, white boys who could very well live right next door to you in the Suburbs.

Lots of poor, brown skinned kids put behind bars and had their futures runined so Skelos and the TEAPbulicans could look like they were tough on drugs — a popular political position in what were then the all white suburbs that served as their political base..

The former secretary of state will count on the backing of African - American and Latino voters in the five boroughs and white moderates in the suburbs to carry her to victory.

inviting locals to a white pride demonstration on Cronulla beach in the suburbs of Sydney.

While watching this movie you realize how these communities are exactly like how the white suburbs are portrayed as well; you have the children causing havoc, the woman who is flaunting herself and cheating on her husband while he's off at work, and the weird «maybe gay» neighbour next door.

Many of these new schools are focused on solving one of our society's most intractable problems: how to close the achievement gap between low - income minority students in our nation's inner cities and their white middle - and upper - class contemporaries in the suburbs.

Among the examples it uses to refute those myths are that in 1990, white women had more than half of all the babies born to unmarried women; that in 1992, 56 percent of all poor children lived in suburbs or rural areas; and that families on welfare have on average...

However, Moe does not point out that core constituents of the Republican party — middle - class and white families in suburbs — also disagree with their party elites on choice.

It's a sign that the Clinton district, located in a small but bustling suburb of Jackson, is on the right track to closing the black - white achievement gap and raising achievement levels for black students.

Black students in white suburbs also have experiences associated with white suburban education, such as going on field trips and having project based learning experiences, which are considered optimal learning experiences in American society (Lewis, 2003).

Today, when White speaks in support of the Common Core, he can seem to talk minimally (or too little) about its impact on middle - class schools, reserving his most impassioned rhetoric for the ways in which the Common Core will help the poorest and neediest in the state, offering those students the caliber of education rich kids in high - performing East Coast suburbs are getting.

In Adelaide, visit the beachside suburb of Glenelg and dine at Sammys on the Marina which serves buckets of South Australian king prawns, seafood chowder and beer - battered King George whiting with chips.

Located on Auckland's North Shore, the vibrant seaside suburb of Takapuna is home to stylish shops, charming cafes, white sand beaches, and spectacular views of the Hauraki Gulf.

White Linen Guesthouse offers accommodation in the tranquil suburb of Tierpoort, on the outskirts of Pretoria.

Armed with chalk and a spirit level, Dutch artist Bart Lodewijks (b. 1972) draws abstract white lines on everything from residential buildings in quiet suburbs to street surfaces in bustling city centres.

The founder and director of the fabled Green Gallery on Fifty - Seventh Street, the witty, poetry - loving art lover became a legend of the avant - garde, showing the work of artists such as Mark di Suvero, Claes Oldenburg, James Rosenquist, Donald Judd, and others.Born to an American father and a Chinese mother in a Cincinnati suburb, Bellamy moved to New York and made a life for himself between the Beat orbits of Provincetown and white - glove events such as the Guggenheim's opening gala.

Early morning in some seasons, there would typically be crunchy, white frost on the ground in our countryside and every square foot north, and a thaw line running right around the built - up suburbs, looking toward the city, beyond which all was dark.

From the outset, the drug war could have been waged primarily in overwhelmingly white suburbs or on college campuses.

Three years — and counting — into the foreclosure crisis, cities and suburbs across the country are fighting challenges on a scale not seen since «white flight» from central cities in the 1960s and 70s.

When I was a little girl we were renting a mid-century Ranch style cottage (this was in Melbourne's inner eastern suburbs), which had a pink bathroom and the vanity had a white laminate top with sparkles like you discuss on the blog It's been nearly 44 years since we lived in that house but I miss it so much.