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School Desegregation in Kalamazoo, Michigan: A Staff Report of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
Commission on Civil Rights, Washington, DC. – 1977
During 1968 the board of education of Kalamazoo, Michigan appointed a committee on desegregation and charged the group with developing a master plan with target dates for desegregating all levels of the public school system. The committee recommended a detailed three page program that was to lead to total desegregation of local schools by…
Descriptors: Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Methods, Integration Readiness
The Integration of Rural Migrants in New Settings
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Rieger, Jon H.; Beegle, J. Allan – Rural Sociology, 1974
Using an index measuring both formal and informal social contacts with native urban residents, the integration process of rural migrants was plotted over time through a cross-sectional analysis of 688 residences for a sample from Michigan's Upper Peninsula. (Author/KM)
Descriptors: Adaptation Level Theory, Family Role, Integration Studies, Migrants
Lansing, Michigan
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Griffore, Robert J.; And Others – Integrated Education, 1977
An important component of the school desegregation methods of Lansing, Michigan, was the Cluster Plan, which is described and evaluated in this article. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Methods, Desegregation Plans
Flint
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Grant, William R. – Integrated Education, 1977
The Flint public school system, Michigan's second largest, has adopted an aggressive magnet school plan but the project has fallen short of ending segregation in the city's classrooms. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Classroom Desegregation, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Methods
Desegregation and White Flight: A Case Study.
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Wisenbaker, Joseph M. – 1976
This paper presents a series of analyses which focus on the geographical and historical context of the racial balance of the public schools of Lansing, Michigan. Based upon the results of these analyses, it is concluded that there is not conclusive evidence pointing toward an excessive alteration in the racial balance of the public schools due to…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Desegregation Effects, Economic Factors, Educational History