This is a report of school desegregation in Greenville, Mississippi. In 1964, five years before ordered to do so by a federal judge, Greenville initiated its own plan for majority-to-minority crossover of students on a "freedom of choice" basis. The school board also initiated a voluntary teacher transfer program that met with…

The Magnet School Plan as presented to the court and subsequently approved in July, 1975, contained four action areas: (1) reduce the number of schools that are 90 percent or more white or combined black and brown, (2) reduce the number of students attending schools that are 90 percent or more white or combined black and brown, (3) provide free…

Cause for alarm and need for remedial action is seen in the substantial and continuing increase in racial isolation in New York State schools. This cleavage which exists in other industrialized Northern states, border states and certain cities in the South is responsible for general social unrest as well as racial riots in the high schools. The…

This booklet is a participant's handbook for playing the Valleybrook Elementary School-Lakemont High School Simulation Game. In this game, the participant tries to deal with simulated problems faced in desegregated schools. The participant either plays the role of Terry Patterson, a new fifth grade teacher in Valleybrook Elementary School, or that…

The main purpose of this study is to present documented facts concerning the operation of school desegregation in communities which are engaged in the process. The purpose of the Commission on Civil Rights is to identify problems which recur in school districts undergoing desegregation, and to describe how they have been met. Specifically, the…

This report provides an account of the desegregation process in several southern states. It contains detailed case studies of five southern school districts (Charlotte-Mecklenburg County, North Carolina; Williamsburg County, South Carolina; Clarke County, Georgia; Little Rock, Arkansas; and Hillsborough County, Florida) and shorter profiles of six…

Noting that each school tends to define integration in its own terms, this study attempts to contribute to a typology of school integration by describing the definition of integration at one particular school, and then attempting to construct a balanced definition of integration, based on observation and interpreted within a broader conceptual…

If past experience is taken as a guide, desegregation in the big cities will not come easily, yet interdistrict desegregation of public education is the key to allowing minority youth to participate in the mainstream of the economy in addition to relieving the tension between the races. (Author/AM)

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)

The Flint public school system, Michigan's second largest, has adopted an aggressive magnet school plan but the project has fallen short of ending segregation in the city's classrooms. (Author/AM)

Epidemic presented suggests that certain types of interracial contact are associated with the expression of tolerant racial attitudes while other contact situations produce no significant positive correlation with unprejudiced views. (Author/AM)

Persons involved in developing a viable desegregation plan will have to take into account the diversity within the Latino community and will have to be aware of the diverse political goals and residential patterns of each Spanish speaking community. (Author/AM)

Describes the following four successful programs used in Connecticut to achieve integrated schools: (1) improvement of the Hartford Public Schools; (2) busing program from Hartford schools to suburban schools; (3) Bloomfield, CT, program for equal education; and (4) Windsor, CT, program of Black and White cooperation to halt White flight. (PS)

State governments are losing more desegregation cases. The basis of liability change from local agencies to state ones during the 1970s and 80s. The consequences are that some states continue to deny responsibility and others, more wisely, acknowledge responsibility and develop programs to desegregate as a matter of state policy. (VM)

The Pennsylvania debate between higher education officials and civil rights activists over how aggressively states should order public colleges to recruit minority students may be a preview of controversy in other states where court-ordered desegregation plans have expired or been removed. (MSE)