Presents an overview of recent desegregation litigation. Focuses on cases concerning the scope of judicial authority to order interdistrict remedies; responsibility for financing desegregation efforts; and alternatives to busing. Reports that although negotiated settlements are now being reached more frequently, the end of judicial monitoring is…

Using three case studies, identifies important variables affecting desegregation design and implementation: (1) in interactions and exchanges between the school system, the courts, and the city (process variables); and (2) in the remedy plan itself and the implementation process (outcome variables). (RDN)

Discusses the positive and negative consequences of school desegregation in Boston, and focuses particularly on the role of Judge Arthur Garrity. Asserts that, however much desegregation created racial imbalances by encouraging White flight, it has led to the establishment of a school system in which quality and equality can finally exist. (KH)

Describes the voluntary, interdistrict transfer plan implemented to accomplish desegregation in the public schools in the St. Louis, Missouri, metropolitan area. (GC)

Presents a report prepared by the Faculty Senate/Employee Executive Council Committee on Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity at the University of Oklahoma. Describes the legal basis for affirmative action; provides recommendations for improving equal employment opportunities at the University; and discusses long-term, effective use…

Summarizes the pattern of ghetto formation and expansion, and the concomitant white flight to the suburbs, and describes various plans which have proven effective in integrating neighborhoods. (SF)

Discusses legal and educational issues arising from the recent desegregation case, Bradley vs the School Board of the City of Richmond. The central theme of the analysis is that the Bradley decision expanded the white majority thesis -- the proposition that whites must be in the majority in all schools in order to achieve equality of educational…

Defines the concept of comprehensive high school, reviews the inadequac

Comprised of an explanatory foreword, expressions of present federal policy, racial distribution in public schools, alternative school policy proposals, and action to date in the 91st Congress. (JM)

Data on desegregation plans implemented in 49 large school districts indicate that voluntary plans have been less effective than mandatory plans in reducing levels of racial isolation and improving racial balance within districts. The data do not support arguments that voluntary plans result in less of a decline in White enrollment. (Author/MJL)

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)

Compares school desegregation in Dallas and Boston. Demonstrates how, in Dallas, successful leadership styles have brought about public acceptance of and community involvement in the desegregation process. (GC)

Much can be learned from desegregation experiences in the Indianapolis Public Schools, surrounding suburban districts, and the Fort Wayne Community Schools. Racial balance was enhanced in these districts (via magnet schools and majority-to-minority transfers across feeder patterns), as measured by the Index of Dissimilarity. Judge Dillin's…

The Supreme Court's recent legal reinterpretation of desegregation requirements for "de jure" segregated states and its finding (in "United States vs. Fordice") of continued segregation in Mississippi is being used by civil lights activists to compel redesign of effective remedies, monitor progress, and increase racial…