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Zarr, Christopher – Social Education, 2018
Just a few months after the Supreme Court decided in "Brown v. Board of Education" that segregation in public schools was "inherently unequal" and unconstitutional, a principal from a New York City suburb invited students from several southern schools to see an integrated school in action. Principal Willis Thomson of New…
Descriptors: School Segregation, School Desegregation, Desegregation Litigation, Suburban Schools
Kucsera, John – Civil Rights Project - Proyecto Derechos Civiles, 2014
The fight for equal educational opportunity in New York has followed a pattern similar to other diverse or racially transforming states. From the 1950s to 1980s, the issue of school desegregation was an important issue. Local civil rights pressure, the courts, and legislation attempted to desegregate large urban school systems through both…
Descriptors: School Segregation, Desegregation Plans, Educational History, Student Diversity
Kalodner, Howard I., Ed.; Fishman, James J., Ed. – 1978
This book presents case studies describing the role of the courts and legislation in seven school desegregation cases. In addition to the studies of individual litigation, there are essays on the role of the professional educator in desegregation cases and the plaintiff client counsel relationship. A historical review of the desegregation of the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Court Role, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Litigation
DODSON, DAN W. – 1965
REPORTS ON EFFORTS TO END DE FACTO SEGREGATION IN NEW ROCHELLE AND MOUNT VERNON, NEW YORK, ARE PRESENTED. "NEW ROCHELLE, NEW YORK" BY JOHN KAPLAN GIVES THE BACKGROUND MATERIAL ON THE CRISIS IN NEW ROCHELLE. "RACIAL IMBALANCE IN PUBLIC EDUCATION IN NEW ROCHELLE" BY DAN W. DODSON, DISCUSSES THE PUBLIC POLICY ISSUES CONFRONTING…
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Community Attitudes, De Facto Segregation, Desegregation Litigation
New York State Bar Association, Albany. Committee on Civil Rights. – 1964
Reviewed are the New York State Statutes (up to 1964) relevant to school integration and segregation. On the whole, the issue of segregation in New York is defacto rather than dejure, so that racial imbalance stems from discriminatory residential patterns. The document discusses the applicable legal cases under such headings as forbidden…
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, De Facto Segregation, Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Methods