The Supreme Court's landmark Brown decision changed the total pattern of race relations in the United States and helped to solidify the foundations of American democracy for the benefit of all Americans. Ironically, although the specific issue which resulted in the Brown decision was concerned with the constitutionality of racially segregated…

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, 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)

Asserts that judicial hostility to majority-black schools reinforces the national belief that minority-black schools are bad schools, thus insuring that integration in education must continue to reflect preference for middle-class, white behavior. (Author/JM)

A rejoinder by the Chairman of the Department of Sociology-Anthropology, Tougaloo College, to an article by Nancy St. John in the January-February issue of Integrated Education." (JM)

The ruling by U. S. District Judge Stephen J. Roth on September 27, 1971, in Bradley versus Milliken, a case involving charges by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People that the Detroit School system was segregated. (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)

Reviews major legal actions, from the filing (by the author) of the original 1956 lawsuit against the Little Rock (Arkansas) School Board, to the court order reopening the schools in 1959, to the present when the battle over segregation is still being waged and new lawsuits have been filed. (CMG)

A review of Supreme Court decisions concerning the intent standard, and an exploration of political scientists' findings concerning the nature of decision-making processes in American communities, leads to the conclusion that the standard does not place the burden of proof on those who follow policies that result in segregation. (CMG)

Legal segregation might be dead, but many metropolitan schools remain overwhelmingly black and poor--a result of years of white flight from central cities and recent court decisions accelerating a return to neighborhood schools. At the same time, the bourgeoning Hispanic population is finding itself in increasingly segregated schools across the…

In spite of the euphoria of the "Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas" decision outlawing segregation, Black leaders and presidents of the member colleges of the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) understood that this critical point in history brought both opportunities and challenges to Black higher education. The "Brown" decision…

Highlights developments in integrated education on the Federal and State levels from December, 1969 through January, 1970. (JM)

Extracts from statements made on June 11-12, 1970, by the then candidate for the post of Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to the Senate Finance Committee, relating to integration methods, objectives, and policies. (JM)

Summarizes and analyzes constitutional doctrine dealing with school desegregation and reviews whether the courts have kept school desegregation law clear and understandable. (Author/JM)

It's a little-known fact, but, 50 years ago, the junior high and high schools of Topeka, Kan., were integrated--though in name only. Fear was the order of the day at the high school, where an African American assistant superintendent by the name of Harrison Caldwell roamed the halls as the "White folks' enforcer," ensuring that African…