Court-Ordered School Desegregation
One Community's Attitude
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18968523 |
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| Authors | Frank Brown (State University of New York at Buffalo, corresponding author), Waithira Muigai (State University of New York at Buffalo) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 355-368 |
| Publication date | 1983-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Black Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9347 • E-ISSN: 1552-4566 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/002193478301300307 |
| OpenAlex | W2005809476 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
In the early 1970s, Black elementary and secondary school children enrolled in the Dalton Public School District' asked the U.S. Federal District Court to make local and state officals refrain from operating a racially segregated public school system. In the mid-1970s, the Federal District Judge held that Dalton was operating a de jure segregated school system in violation of the plantiffs' Fourteenth Amendment right of equal protection under the law by intentionally causing and maintaining a segregated school system. The judge's 22-point decree ordered the Dalton Public School system to solicit the views of parents and other community people in planning to implement its desegregation order. School administrators and board members held numerous meetings with parents and community groups, seeking their opinions and assistance in planning for school desegregation: they established a hotline for people to call for information and sponsored a mass media campaign to further inform the
Criminology · Desegregation · Political science · Sociology · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms · Law · Psychology · School Choice and Performance · Social Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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