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Latimer for immediate desegregation of Atlanta's schools and instead requested that the General Assembly follow the path outlined in the Sibley Commission's majority report and repeal their massive resistance laws, setting a deadline for Atlanta school desegregation for May 1, 1969, [201] before the fall semester began. [202]
Many southeast Michigan school districts do have more students of color: 57% of schools in 2023-24 have 70% or more white students, compared with 96% of schools in 1975. An attempt to desegregate ...
"Mexican-Americans and the Desegregation of Schools in the Southwest". Houston Law Review. 8. San Miguel, Guadalupe (2005). Brown Not White: School Integration and the Chicano Movement in Houston. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 1585441155. Strauss, Emily E. (2014). Death of a Suburban Dream: Race and Schools in Compton ...
As of 2005, the proportion of Black students at schools with a White majority was at "a level lower than in any year since 1968". [17] Some critics of school desegregation have argued that court-enforced desegregation efforts of the 1960s were either unnecessary or self-defeating, ultimately resulting in White flight from cities
A majority-Black Mississippi school district received a judge's approval Tuesday to shed federal supervision in a decades-old desegregation lawsuit that included a 2013 order to move away from ...
Freedom of Choice, or Free transfer plan, was the name for a number of plans developed in the United States during 1965–1970, aimed at the integration of schools in states that had a segregated educational system.
Prior to World War II, most public schools in the country were de jure or de facto segregated. All Southern states had Jim Crow Laws mandating racial segregation of schools. . Northern states and some border states were primarily white (in 1940, the populations of Detroit and Chicago were more than 90% white) and existing black populations were concentrated in urban ghettos partly as the ...
School District No. 1, Denver, 413 U.S. 189 (1973), was a United States Supreme Court case that claimed de facto segregation had affected a substantial part of the school system and therefore was a violation of the Equal Protection Clause. In this case, black and Hispanic parents filed suit against all Denver schools due to racial segregation.