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Hanks, Lawrence J. – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2009
On January 20, 2009, essentially 200 years after the enactment of the embargo against the slave trade, 40 years after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., Barack Hussein Obama became the 44th President of the United States of America. Using the one drop rule for racial designation which has prevailed in the USA for most of its history,…
Descriptors: Social Justice, United States History, Race, Criticism
Commission on Civil Rights, Washington, DC. – 1977
During 1968 the board of education of Kalamazoo, Michigan appointed a committee on desegregation and charged the group with developing a master plan with target dates for desegregating all levels of the public school system. The committee recommended a detailed three page program that was to lead to total desegregation of local schools by…
Descriptors: Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Methods, Integration Readiness
Commission on Civil Rights, Washington, DC. – 1977
In 1969 Ossining had been singled out as 1 of 54 target segregated districts in New York by a state study group known as the Fleischmann Commission. The first steps to desegregate the Ossining elementary schools occurred shortly after the state board of education wrote the school department pointing out the racial imbalance in the elementary…
Descriptors: Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Methods, Integration Readiness
Commission on Civil Rights, Washington, DC. – 1977
This report examines the desegregation activities of the Santa Barbara school district focusing on the elementary schools. In 1968 the superintendent requested an onsite review study of Santa Barbara's elementary and high school districts to determine ethnic and racial balance in student enrollments. It was found that 9 of the elementary school…
Descriptors: Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Methods, Integration Readiness
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Trombley, William – Integrated Education, 1977
Notes that Houston's voluntary approach to desegregation, including the magnet schools, seems to be meeting with both judicial and public approval. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Methods, Integration Readiness
Commission on Civil Rights, Washington, DC. – 1977
This is a report on school desegregation in Bogalusa, Louisiana. This school district was selected for study because it offered the unique opportunity to study school desegregation in a rural setting. In the past, Bogalusa operated a dual system of education. In 1965, black parents filed a lawsuit on behalf of their children; Jenkins V. Bogalusa…
Descriptors: Blacks, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Methods
Dorsey, Frederick; And Others – 1977
This document presents the Commission on Civil Rights' findings and recommendations on the desegregation process, specifically the planning phase, in Los Angeles, California. It is the result of Commission investigations in Los Angeles which began in October 1976 and ended in a three-day hearing beginning on December of 1976. The report also…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Community Role, Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Plans
Commission on Civil Rights, Washington, DC. – 1977
This is a report on school desegregation in Corpus Christi, Texas. It discusses in depth the historical and legal basis for school desegregation in Corpus Christi with respect to the litigative processes underlying the issue of school desegregation. This report carefully describes the events leading up to the landmark Cisneros v. Corpus Christi…
Descriptors: Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Methods, Desegregation Plans
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Cohen, Muriel – Integrated Education, 1977
The fourth year of federal court desegregation (1977-78) promised stability and continuity to the Boston public schools. Instead it brought confusion, frustration and anger, although there have been no serious disruptions inside the schools for the first time since desegregation began in 1974. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Methods, Desegregation Plans
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Griffore, Robert J.; And Others – Integrated Education, 1977
An important component of the school desegregation methods of Lansing, Michigan, was the Cluster Plan, which is described and evaluated in this article. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Methods, Desegregation Plans
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Ozio, Ronald – Integrated Education, 1977
The Corpus Christi Independent School District is undergoing the third phase of its integration order. Officials, who once talked of appealing the remedies as soon as the final phase was ordered, will not do so. The death of the unpopular computer grid plan defused the major complaints. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Methods, Desegregation Plans
Commission on Civil Rights, Washington, DC. – 1977
The desegregation of the Stamford public schools began in the 1960's with the construction of new schools to meet the needs of the growing student population. The board of education implemented a plan to desegregate the high schools in 1962, the middle schools in 1967 and '68, and the elementary schools in 1970 and '72. In desegregating its school…
Descriptors: Blacks, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Methods
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Grant, William R. – Integrated Education, 1977
Concludes that after 7 years and countless hours in court, Detroit public school children continue to await complete desegregation and an improved education program. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Methods, Desegregation Plans
Bonacich, Edna; Goodman, Robert F. – 1972
The issue of de facto school segregation in the North has now reached a position on America's social agenda equal in importance to the de jure segregation of Southern schools. This study investigates a small western city with de facto segregated schools that experienced a desegregation controversy. Inglewood, California, is a city of roughly…
Descriptors: Black Students, De Facto Segregation, Demography, Desegregation Litigation
Freedom House Inst. on Schools and Education, Roxbury, MA. – 1975
The initial black community response to the desegregation plan submitted by the School Department is contained in this document. The principal purpose is to make clear to the court that in evaluating this plan, or any other, improvements in the quality of schooling is sought. Efforts to rid the Boston schools of discriminatory pupil placement are…
Descriptors: Black Attitudes, Black Education, Black Influences, Black Leadership
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