The Nation - News from April 21, 1987
Trial began in a federal court suit filed by the Milwaukee School Board and the NAACP charging that racial segregation in the city’s schools is a result of action by the state and the city’s suburbs. Segregation is a “cancerous growth that must be excised from the Milwaukee area,” NAACP attorney Grover Hankins told U.S. District Judge Thomas J. Curran. Defendants in the civil suit are 24 suburbs of Milwaukee, Wisconsin Gov. Tommy G. Thompson and Herbert V. Grover, state superintendent of public instruction. Defense attorneys said they will prove that the suburbs have cooperated to bring about integration.
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