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Peer reviewedOlson, Carol; Hagy, Joe – Journal of Negro Education, 1990
Reviews the efforts of Oklahoma to comply with the 1969 Supreme Court decision, "Adams v Richardson," which required states to desegregate traditionally White educational institutions. Concludes that Oklahoma has failed to increase the number of minority students in institutions of higher education but has institutionalized the…
Descriptors: Civil Rights Legislation, Compliance (Legal), Court Litigation, Educational Opportunities
Vacca, Richard S. – 1985
Section 1983 of the Civil Rights Act of 1871 was designed as a flexible and broadly scoped statute to restrict a wide variety of actions of state officials. During the past 15 years the number of court cases in which provisions of the 1871 act have been applied to school-related issues has increased geometrically. In 1961 the provisions of the act…
Descriptors: Administrators, Boards of Education, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
