After the Supreme Court in Milliken V. Bradley determined that an interdistrict remedy for de jure segregation in the Detroit school system exceeded the constitutional violation, and remanded the case for formulation of a decree, the District Court promptly ordered submission of desegregation plans limited to the Detroit school system. After…

This essay takes up two separate but related issues: how the courts have resolved disputes over race and schooling and how they should resolve such disputes. This essay is in reply to a related essay, in which another author identified the consequences of what he perceived as a minimalist judicial role and called for greater exercise of…

Traces the judicial history of the Supreme Court's ruling in "Jenkins" that federal judges have the authority to order local governments to increase taxes to pay for the cost of integrating a school system. Praises the Supreme Court for acting when state laws and local taxpayers fell short of providing the necessary funds to implement a…

This note analyzes the problem of determining when federal district courts should relinquish jurisdiction over desegregating local school boards. Both the causal and attitudinal principles are examined. Available from the Business Manager, Southern California Law Reivew, Law Center, University of Southern California, University Park, Los Angeles,…

In this school desegregation case the District Court after an evidentiary hearing held that petitioner, Dayton, Ohio School Board had engaged in racial discrimination in the operation of city schools. On the basis of a cumulative violation of the Equal Protection Clause that the court found, the District Court, following reversals by the Court of…

This report summarizes the response of a monitoring commission to the 1983-84 evaluation of the implementation of the Student Assignment Plan (SAP), that is part of a court-mandated school desegregation plan in Chicago (Illinois). Under the SAP, the Board of Education was required to ensure that all schools have at least 30 percent minority…

Researchers interviewed 83 social scientists, 70 attorneys, and 10 federal district judges to discover their views on the use of expert social science testimony in school desegregation litigation. Selected from 17 desegregation cases adjudicated in federal district courts since 1970, the interviewees were asked about their roles in the litigation;…

Reviews the Supreme Court decisions in two recent cases involving affirmative action: "Johnson v. Transportation Agency, Santa Clara" and "United States v. Paradise." These two decisions clarify the legality of affirmative action promotion plans. (MD)

This reprint of an article originally appearing in "Crisis" in June/July 1955, examines the wording of the May 31, 1954, Supreme Court decision regarding equal educational rights for Blacks. (MC)

This report summarizes strategies used by a monitoring commission to evaluate Project Creating a New Approach to Learning (CANAL), part of a court-mandated desegregation plan in Chicago (Illinois). The commission focused on the following areas: (1) the degree to which the project complied with activities in its funding proposal; (2) the level to…

This document is a transcript of a Congressional oversight hearing on the Department of Education's enforcement of Federal Civil Rights laws. Testimony, letters, and prepared statements are included from representatives of the department's Office for Civil Rights (OCR), the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the National…

Failure and fraud in civil rights enforcement by the Department of Education are reported. Investigation and enforcement of the law is the duty of the department's Office for Civil Rights (OCR), which has not followed procedural guidelines for these duties. Complaint cases have accumulated without resolution and few attempts have been made to…

This pamphlet is the complete United States Supreme Court opinion, together with concurring and dissenting opinions, on the Detroit metropolitan area school integration case. The United States District Court in the case had found that the Detroit Board of Education had created and perpetuated school segregation in Detroit. To remedy this…

The 1992 "United States v. Fordice" case is the judicial precedent for desegregating higher education. Across 19 southern and border states, the desegregation burden has been shifted disproportionately to historically black colleges. This legal and political investigation explores acceptable responses to the desegregation mandate that…

This report analyzes and critiques the Chicago (Illinois) Board of Education's implementation of the administrative initiatives regarding the prevention of within-school segregation under a court-mandated desegregation plan. The board was required to ensure that students did not become resegregated after implementation of the desegregation plan.…