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Statement of American Social Scientists of Research on School Desegregation to the U.S. Supreme Court in "Parents v. Seattle School District" and "Meredith v. Jefferson County"
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Orfield, Gary; Frankenberg, Erica; Garces, Liliana M. – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2008
In June 2006, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review two related cases originating from school districts in Louisville, Kentucky and Seattle, Washington that involved voluntarily adopted racial integration plans. Concerned about the outcome of these cases, 553 social scientists submitted a social science statement to the Supreme Court summarizing…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Social Science Research, Racial Integration, Courts
Congress, the President, and Anti-Busing Legislation, 1966-1974
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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
Robert Anthony Reed, III, et al, Plaintiffs Vs. James A. Rhodes, et al, Defendants. Memorandum Opinion and Order [Relating to Racial Isolation in the Cleveland Public School System].
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District Court, Cleveland, OH. Northern District of Ohio. – 1976
In reviewing statistics of the racial patterns in the recent history of the Cleveland public school system, as well as all of the evidence included in the voluminous record in this case, the District Court for the Northern District of Ohio sought an answer to a single question of constitutional law: to what extent, if any, were the defendants in…
Descriptors: Black Community, Black Education, Blacks, Bus Transportation