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From the Courtroom to the Classroom: The Shifting Landscape of School Desegregation
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Smrekar, Claire E., Ed.; Goldring, Ellen B., Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2009
"From the Courtroom to the Classroom" examines recent developments pertaining to school desegregation in the United States. As the editors note, it comes at a time marked by a "general downplaying of race and ethnicity as criteria for the allocation of public resources, as well as a weakening of the political forces that support…
Descriptors: Busing, Race, Public Schools, Neighborhood Schools
School Desegregation Spurs First Housing Desegregation Gain in Forty Years in Louisville and Jefferson County. Three Decades of Increased Segregation Erased between 1970 and 1980. Staff Report 85-8.
Briley, Kyle D. – 1985
This report describes housing desegregation gains in Louisville and Jefferson County, Kentucky, largely caused by school desegregation. The work of Judge James F. Gordon, who presided over the school desegregation plan, is cited as instrumental in aiding in this process. He ruled that no child in the minority in a neighborhood would be used for…
Descriptors: Black Population Trends, Black Students, Busing, Census Figures
Fair Housing: A Better Answer than Busing. A Plan for Louisville and Jefferson County.
Kentucky Commission on Human Rights, Louisville. – 1975
In this paper, the Kentucky Commisssion on Human Rights outlines ways in which housing-related institutions and agencies can revise their policies and procedures to reverse the trend towards housing segregation. Recommendations are made to the city and county with regard to how Section 8 housing assistance programs can be used to promote…
Descriptors: Business Responsibility, Busing, Community Cooperation, Desegregation Methods