The 33 Negro public colleges enroll about one-fourth of all the black students now attending colleges and universities in this country. Although the total enrollment of these schools increased by more than 12 per cent this year alone, eight of them experienced a decline in enrollment and five others gained fewer than 100 students. Fourteen schools…

Examines efforts of citizens of Los Angeles, California to implement school desegregation in the district from 1971 to 1981. Describes measures taken by the school board and anti-integrationist groups to resist desegregation, the court role in the proceedings, and the eventual failure of the desegregation movement in the area. (MJL)

This report describes the history of racial integration in the Tulsa (Oklahoma) Public Schools from 1954 to 1982. The first section examines integration from 1954 to 1969, and discusses such initial steps as boundary changes and school transfers that were made in response to government policy and legislation for integration. The second section…

Even though transportation of school children was long accepted by the public prior to the conflict over school integration, the school bus became a symbol representing the divergent emotions of both the integrationists and the supporters of "neighborhood schools." Busing was used as a means of overcoming the resistance and procrastination of…

The first section of this document narrates Southern resistance to integration from 1964 to 1967, and the second relates the weakening of civil rights legislation through the influence of Southern Congressmen and other moderates in Congress. A detailed discussion of the Macon County and Jefferson County (Alabama) school desegregation decisions is…

Notably isolated from the large metropolitan centers by geography and predominantly agricultural in its economy, Kern County is California's third largest county in land area. About one-third of the county is situated on the flat valley floor at the extreme southern end of the San Joaquin Valley. The area relies heavily on Chicano and Black manual…

Presents an historic overview of school desegregation court decisions. Discusses governmental and socioeconomic factors that have influenced school desegregation policy. Describes the Milwaukee (Wisconsin) school desegregation settlement based on voluntary interdistrict student transfers and efforts to remedy racial isolation by integrating…

This chapter focuses on school desegregation litigation and attendant employment-related remedies decreed or rejected by the federal courts. The overarching remedial theory governing relief in school desegregation cases differs from that governing employment discrimination cases in that the central issue is equal educational opportunity, even…

The most important education issue in terms of the volume of court cases and the impact on education has been racial isolation in schools. For decades the thrust has been on integrating the schools, but this goal has not been accomplished. Desegregation efforts have been frustrated and the problem of providing a quality education for all students…

The contents of this compilation of information on desegregation activities in Philadelphia, funded under Title IV of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, section 405, are organized in 11 parts, as follows: (1) Introduction, (2) Description of School District of Philadelphia, (3) Housing Patterns as a Factor in Desegregation, (4) Map Depicting Racial…

This volume contains three analytic literature reviews of desegregation literature. The first review examines trends in the literature of school desegregation and educational inequality from 1960-1975. The second review provides an assessment of conceptual frameworks and methodological orientations concerning interracial schooling. One purpose of…

Lists 69 annotated entries of writings between 1973 and 1982 on the social, political, and economic effects of Brown v Board of Education. (CMG)

Argues for the need to render schools that Black children attend more educationally effective regardless of the feasibility of making those schools integrated. Further argues that racial-balance remedies do not guarantee the equal education demanded by the "Brown" decision and that the all-Black schools that persist need not be…

A review of 25 years of the Brown decision, the transition from a melting-pot myth to a pluralistic society, and the impact of these on future educational directions are discussed. It is suggested that schools must revive some of the virtues of the melting pot. (Author/MLW)

Three generations of children have passed through the Baton Rouge (Louisiana) school system since the "Brown" decision (1954) and one generation since the federal court's 1981 desegregation order. The impact of school desegregation on African American children was studied in the East Baton Rouge School District. For the student body as a…