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Article: TESTS OF TIME; U.S. schools were ordered to desegregate 50 years ago. Minneapolis and St. Paul's turn came in the 1970s. Hundreds of thousands of students were bused. Looking at schools now, it can be hard to see what has changed. Find the people who lived it, and they'll tell you.(NEWS)(TESTS OF TIME)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- May 9, 2004
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Byline: James Walsh; Staff Writer
Richard Howell Jr. stepped through the door and gasped.
In his old homeroom in Northeast Middle School in Minneapolis, where he once sat as quietly as he could in a back corner, three women worked in what is now an office. "They're black!" he said. In the hallway, he met and embraced the school's principal, who is black. He shook hands and traded laughs with an assistant principal, who is black.
On a recent spring morning, as he strolled the corridors where he was once the only black student and an object of derision, Howell saw a rainbow of children - white, Hispanic, American Indian and black - who now go to ...