This excerpt is from a St. Louis Post Dispatch article:
“When Superintendent Kelvin Adams last winter proposed closing Cleveland NJROTC High School — a magnet school with a Navy Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps — parents and students spoke for hours in opposition at public forums. When the he proposed phasing out Beaumont in 2011, no one stepped forward to save it. The school hasn’t accepted a freshman class since.”
Note: red text is my emphasis
The Discovery Flight program is free and introduces young people from 8-18 years old to flying and the history of famed Black Airmen.
CORE’s just demand was to hire four employees to address the racist hiring practices in St. Louis banking institutions. When the bank’s response was that there were not “four Blacks in the city” fit for such jobs, CORE launched a protest that became the longest and most contentious in St. Louis civil rights history.
When the matter of wrongful convictions is discussed, you may hear the frequently cited theory by Sir William Blackstone: it is better that ten guilty people go free than one innocent person suffer. The English legal scholar formulated the theory in 1765 and it became the basis for the noble idea that one is innocent until proven guilty.
