Author focuses primarily on the legal battles in Richmond and Detroit for merging school districts to achieve racial balance. (CB)

Notes that the court's posture toward desegregation at a given time is dependent upon popular opinion and the attitudes of Congress and the President. However, the court often seems to disagree with shifts in the more political branches of government. (Author/AM)

This booklet contains two papers: (1) "Federal Agencies and Urban Segregation: Steps Toward Coordinated Action," by Gary Orfield; and (2) "Mounting a Concerted Federal Attack on Urban Segregation," by William L. Taylor. In the first paper, racial, economic, and educational trends in urban areas are reviewed. Lack of Federal commitment,…

This report by the United States Commission on Civil Rights focuses on the desegregation of metropolitan schools. It begins by summarizing the research on the causes of racial isolation in metropolitan areas, and connects this research to issues raised in Milliken V. Bradley. In this case, the Supreme Court noted that legal decisions affecting…

Argues that just as the Justice Department of the Democratic Administration of the 60's deserves credit for progress, it must share responsibility for failure, and that in the Nixon Administration, the decision obviously was that certain forms of racism are good politics. (Author/JM)

In the debate about the existence of a link between court ordered school desegregation and white flight, a good deal of confusion has arisen over that courts have actually decided in school desegregation cases and what factors influence their decisions. This brief article represents an attempt to dispel the confusion by summarizing the major legal…