The Supreme Court and School Desegregation

haps more litigation, legislation, administrative action, rhetoric, and controversy than all other areas of civil rights combined. Yet, by all signs, the struggle to desegregate schools has only begun. The struggle will continue because progress in school desegregation has been limited and because difficult questions and problems raised by school segregation in metropolitan areas and in northern school districts are beginning to be dealt with only now. This article has a single thesis: that school desegregation can be achieved in all American communities and that successful school desegregation will ultimately have positive consequences for American society. In an effort to establish the validity of this thesis, this article will (X) review the progress of school desegregation to identify the areas in which this conflict must expand in the future if full school desegregation is to be achieved; (2) identify the factors that have limited progress to suggest the obstacles which must be overcome if progress is to continue; and (3) assess the current standards of the Supreme Court on school desegregation and speculate on the implications of these standards for

Criminology · Desegregation · Political science · Sociology · Supreme court · Law · Law, Rights, and Freedoms

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