The 1977 Supreme Court decision in "Milliken v. Bradley," involving the Detroit public schools and the state of Michigan, held that federal courts possess the authority not only to order the implementation of educational program components as part of a desegregation remedy, but also to assess a portion of the cost of such components…

Summarizes the Indianapolis Public Schools desegregation case, offers an interpretation of its relative significance in the picture of metropolitan schools desegregation, and provides the text of Federal Judge S. Hugh Dillin's ruling, delivered on July 20, 1973. (JM)

A review on both a state-by-state basis and on the national level of developments pertaining to school integration, racial discrimination and sex discrimination, including unemployment of minority group teenagers, textbook bias, Black freshmen enrollment trends, sex discrimination in hiring of women with doctorates, federal court litigation and…

United States district judges have, regardless of their personal views the awesome assignment of forcing compliance with the Supreme Court's 1954 school segregation decisions. In the District of Columbia and in the border states of Missouri, Oklahoma, West Virginia, Delaware, and Maryland, for the most part authorities have completed, or are…

A review on both a state-by-state basis and on the national level of developments pertaining to school integration, including integration litigation, Office of Civil Rights, H.E.W., policy and actions, student rights, public school enrollment trends, affirmative action by universities in their employment practices, and others. (JM)

Since Brown v Board of Education, the Federal courts have consistently supported and extended the position that legally compelled segregation of students by race is a denial of equal protection. Support from the Federal government's executive and legislative branches, however, has never been so consistent. (CMG)

Presents an overview of the original "Brown" decision and the complex body of case law that has evolved from it. Reviews the "compensatory education" alternative, which focuses upon improving education for minority students by means other than strict numerical integration, as well as the special problems found in districts with…

In Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, the Supreme Court outlawed segregation in the nation's public schools. This decision has not eliminated racial segregation, but it fundamentally altered the psychological pattern of race relations in the United States. Brown concerned a form of racial discrimination that has virtually vanished from…

In a recent series of decisions, the Supreme Court has set the standard for returning control of vital school affairs to local school officials. Discusses the legal bases school officials and their legal counsel might use in showing that their school district has attained so-called unitary status, the condition for lifting federal desegregation…

This testimony, by the General Counsel for the National Association Advancement Colored People before the May 1974 public hearings of the New York City Commission on Human Rights, discusses the case entitled "Jeffrey Hart et al Vs The Community School Board of Brooklyn, District 21", which has come to be known as both the Weinstein case…

Reviews the activity of the Supreme Court and of a number of lower federal courts encouraged by the attitude expressed by the Supreme Court in the 1971 Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education case; and the various forms of opposition to busing. (JM)

Excerpts from the ruling made on February 17, 1970 by United States District Judge Damon J. Keith in the Pontiac, Michigan school segregation case. (JM)

It is suggested that the Bakke case settles so little it is virtually useless as a precedent. Its single holding is that it put Bakke in medical school; without any consistent majority rationale there is no law of the case. Available from Univ. of Oregon, School of Law, Eugene, OR 97403. (MSE)

These summaries of recent major court decisions related to school desegregation were prepared in an effort to be of assistance to nonlawyers. As an introduction, the workings of the United States judicial system are outlined, and an overview of school desegregation law since 1954 is provided. Recent decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court that set…