THE CURRENT STATUS OF ANTI-SCHOOL DESEGREGATION LAWS AND SOME OTHER DISCRIMINATORY PRACTICES IN THE SOUTHERN AND BORDER STATES ARE REVIEWED IN THIS ARTICLE. ALTHOUGH MANY OF THESE LAWS ARE STILL IN EXISTENCE, A RECENT EXAMINATION HAS SHOWN THAT THEY ARE NOT USED OR ENFORCED. THIS ARTICLE WAS PUBLISHED IN THE "SOUTHERN EDUCATION REPORT,"…

In his 20 years as a superintendent in five school districts across a wide swath of New York state, Paul Doyle has seen just about every grade-level configuration under the sun when it comes to public schools. In the 8,000-student Rome district where Doyle started as a superintendent back in 1985, campuses followed a K-6 configuration. Rome had an…

Reports on recent developments in the struggle of minority groups to achieve equal civil, social, education, economic and employment opportunities in several states around the country. (SF)

This book explores the 150-year struggle against segregated education, showing how victory over segregation was gained, then lost. It provides court testimonials from 1849, through the victory of NAACP lawyers in Brown v. Board of Education, to the erosion of that decision in recent Supreme Court rulings. The story reveals that this long battle…

Argues that schools have been primarily concerned with the status quo and in serving those people useful to society. Educators must renew efforts to meet problem of segregation. (LN)

The Supreme Court decision banning school segregation is presented in this article. (MC)

Examines the public school desegregation cases from a historical and legal perspective, and the impact of these efforts relative to judicial decision-making. (Author/IRT)

A look at landmark court decisions on school desegregation. (Editor)

Court cases dealing with school desegregation have become increasingly complex over the years. The major portion of this paper highlights six of those cases, which provide a picture of the shifting positions of the federal judiciary on the subject. The purpose of the discussion is to allow school administrators to incorporate the current law into…

Analyzes White Southern attitudes toward desegregation from the 1950s to the 1980s and traces how support for segregation of the races gradually decreased. Argues that supporters of segregation now comprise an inconsequential fringe group and suggests that Southern racial relations are today no better or worse than those in other regions. (KH)

Rochester, New York was praised as they voluntarily moved toward systemwide school integration--but failed in the attempt. (DM)

The enforcement of a requirement of racial dispersion of school population in one region of the country is morally, politically, and legally an untenable position. Busing is a shorthand term symbolizing something else which must be faced. (DM)

The criticisms of busing cannot be answered by refusing the Federal support needed to make school desegregation successful, or by failing to support enforcement of the Fourteenth Amendment. (DM)