APF Reporter Vol. 17 #3

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	Integration's Victims: When Virginia Slammed the School Doors Shut Donald P. Baker Six-year-old Shirley Ann Davidson had looked forward to starting school for a long time. Her mother had prepared her well, giving her the basics of arithmetic and reading from a Dick-and-Jane book to teach her the alphabet. During the summer before Shirley was scheduled to start first grade in Prince Edward County, Virginia, her mother made her a couple of new dresses and drove her into town for a vaccination and checkup. The year was 1959.
	Punishing Women, Punishing Girls Nina Bernstein Shirley Wilder still carries scars from her first weeks at the New York State Training School for Girls in Hudson, where she was sent soon after her 13th birthday.
	Survivors Text and Photos by APF fellow Jill Freedman Roman Ferber, of New York, returns to Auschwitz-Birkenau for the first time in 50 years. He was at this concentration camp when he was eleven years old, fighting for his life and the life of his cousin Willie, whose parents were killed by the Plaszow camp commandant, Eamon Goeth.
	Caste Party: Africa Arrives in America Joel Millman The United Gnegnos of America held their annual ball recently at the Bronx's Parkside Plaza. Gnegnos (pronounced "NYE nyose") are a caste, actually the lowest caste, among the city's 20,000-odd Senegalese immigrants. To attend a Gnegnos function, to have even heard of it (I received an engraved invitation with the afternoon mail) is to note the critical mass of settlement that Senegal has brought to New York. And that is worth celebrating.
	Migrant Head Start: Following the Seasons of the Soil Kay Mills WESTLEY, California - Just as farmwork has changed, so has care for children of those who work in America's fields. Head Start, for migrant farmworkers' children, follows their parents' seasons on the soil.
	Milestones Douglas Root with photos by Randy Olson Most Fridays, George Whitman doesn't have the strength of will to take his four children to the community dinners for people affected by AIDS. There is the hour he spends in verbal combat with his two oldest boys - Corey, 15, and Ryan, 16, who want no part in the events. There is the hour's bus ride each way from his family's one-bedroom, run-down, rented home on the slopes of Pittsburgh's South Side to the Episcopal church hall in the fashionable East End Shadyside district.
	The Dialogue of the Deaf Over Coca Corinne Schmidt Quillabamba, Peru - The decrepit old theater, filled with hand-lettered signs and women in bowler hats passing out coca leaves, seemed worlds away from the high living associated with the illegal drug trade. So did the calls for all-out war on "el narcotráfico." But its designation of coca as a traditional natural resource of the Andes, like its condemnation of U.S. efforts to eradicate the coca crop, turned the annual congress of the Andean Coca Council into an overt challenge to U.S. drug policy.