The Program for Educational Opportunity, an institute based at the University of Michigan and established by the Office of Education pursuant to Title IV of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, is designed to assist school districts in the process of desegregation. The Program annually conducts a series of conferences. The Conference on Developments in…

On February 22, 1973, attorneys for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Atlanta Board of Education filed a compromise desegregation plan with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. If the Court approves, this compromise will constitute the final desegregation plan for the Atlanta Public…

This research is intended to be a factual analysis of desegregation data. Section I contains historical information on school desegregation in Metro Atlanta. Included are details of the various school desegregation suits as well as information concerning the extent of desegregation in the City of Atlanta school system and the racial composition of…

This document contains case studies of school desegregation programs implemented in five school systems: Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Chattooga County, Georgia; Riverside, California; Rochester, New York; and Sherman, Texas. The case studies illustrate a variety of techniques and methods available for dealing with such recurring problems of school…

This document comprises eight federal court decisions pertinent to public school desegregation: (1) "Brown v. Board of Education," 347 U.S. 483 (1954); Mr. Chief Justice Warren delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court; (2) "Bolling v. Sharpe," 374 U.S. 497 (1954); Mr. Chief Justice Warren delivered the opinion of the Supreme…