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Orfield, Gary; Lee, Chungmei – Civil Rights Project / Proyecto Derechos Civiles, 2007
American schools, resegregating gradually for almost two decades, are now experiencing accelerating isolation and this will doubtless be intensified by the recent decision of the U.S. Supreme Court. In June 2007, the Supreme Court handed down its first major decision on school desegregation in 12 years in the Louisville and Seattle cases. A…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Voluntary Desegregation, School Desegregation, Racial Segregation
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Orfield, Gary – Journal of Law and Education, 1975
Develops the role of politics and the need for political leadership in civil rights legislation and enforcement policies. (DW)
Descriptors: Busing, Civil Rights, Civil Rights Legislation, Court Litigation
Orfield, Gary – 1969
This book discusses the history of the segregation issue from before the Civil War through the Johnson administration, the struggle between the Federal and State governments over the 1954 Supreme Court ruling to abolish segregated education, the emergence of civil rights as a national issue, and the passing of civil rights legislation under the…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Desegregation Effects, Federal Legislation, Federal State Relationship