A response by Professor John Walton of Johns Hopkins University, Former President of the Board of School Commissioners of Baltimore, to the article by Antero Pietila of the Baltimore Sun which was published in "Integrateducation" for November-December 1974. (Author/JM)

A reply by Antero Pietila of the Baltimore Sun to a response by Professor John Walton of Johns Hopkins University, former President of the Board of School Commissioners of Baltimore, to his article which was published in "Integrateducation" for November-December, 1974. (Author/JM)

It is asserted, in this testimony by the executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union before the May 1974 public hearings of the New York City Commission on Human Rights, that the New York City Board of Education has refused to desegregate even where there was a sufficient number of whites to do so. (Author/JM)

An excerpt from Morgan et al., v. Hennigan et al., in U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts, in which the court found that the Boston public schools were segregated as a result of purposeful actions of school board members who acted with intent to segregate the schools. (EH)

Summarizes the ruling made on April 28, 1971 by U. S. District Court Judge Stanley A. Weigel relating to the San Francisco School Segregation case. The judge applied a Supreme Court ruling designed for Southern segregated schools to a non-Southern school for the first time. (DM)

Despite the 1978 implementation of a new desegregation plan, analysts have found that Los Angeles schools are still segregated. This is the case because the master desegregation plan has a false definition of segregated schools, a protective covenant shielding the White schools, and a focus on their pretended desegregation. (Author/GC)

The districting policies of and the past resistance to integration shown by the Los Angeles School Board cast doubts on decentralization as the alternative to integration of that city's schools. (DM)

This testimony, before a public hearing of the New York City Commission on Human Rights in May 1974, cites a study done in 1965 of the junior high schools of Brooklyn in which it was demonstrated that this segment of the system could be desegregated without a great amount of dislocation. (Author/JM)

Evaluates the role of monitoring offices in school desegregation by focusing on the federally funded office in Cleveleand, Ohio. Asserts that its activities generated a sizable public information program, influence community attitudes, and triggered a large-scale reorganization of the Cleveland school system. (KH)

Analyzes the creation, structure, and function of the Cleveland Office on School Monitoring and Community Relations. Offers an assessment which includes suggestions about how other court-ordered monitoring bodies might be organized. (KH)

Contains extracts from a school segregation case involving whether Mexican-Americans constitute an identifiable ethnic group in desegregation proceedings, which question was decided in the affirmative. (DM)

A member of the Los Angeles board of education describes her experiences in the attempt to enforce school desegregation in the district between 1962 and 1965, discusses the board's "color blind" policy and its resistance to integration efforts, and examines integrationists' limited successes and eventual failure in the desegregation…

Deals with sexism and racism in education, emphasizing the interrelations between the two with particular emphasis on the minority women, including material on textbooks and classrooms. (Author/JM)

This testimony, by the Chancellor of the New York City Board of Higher Education before a May 1974 public hearing of the New York City Commission on Human Rights, asserts that the open admissions program was a statement by the Board that the traditional admission criteria (high school averages and college board scores) were incomplete, overlooking…

The Chancellor of the New York City Board of Education discusses, in his testimony before a May 1974 public hearing of the New York City Commission on Human Rights why the goal of integration in New York City, as in other inner city areas throughout the country, remained so elusive, noting that 66 percent of public school children in New York City…