Examines pre-integration conditions in a metropolitan, multiple district school desegregation situation. This case study presents background information, analyzes the politics of desegregation and bussing independent of metropolitan and interdistrict considerations, analyzes the interdistrict and metropolitan aspects of the case, and, analyzes…

Orangeburg, South Carolina implemented a court approved geographical zoning plan and a plan clustering and pairing schools for the 1971-72 school year. All school staffs currently reflect the district's racial population. In the process of unifying the school district, numerous meetings and workshops that involved students, staff and the community…