ERIC Number: ED152952
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Publication Date: 1978-Mar
Pages: 18
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Desegregation: Futuristic Considerations.
Carter, David G.
One premise of the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision was that racial injustice could be eliminated through court ordered desegregation. Twenty-three years after Brown I, segregation continues to be one of the most complex issues confronting the country. The failure to distinguish between means (busing school children) and ends (school desegregation) has caused Americans to ignore the goal to which they are legally committed: the education of all their children. Although progress has been made since 1954, a number of more recent court cases illustrate the problems and complexities of school integration. Some decisions, such as Green v. County School Board (1968) and Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education (1970), rather than facilitating desegregation, actually increased litigation by raising more questions than they solved. The confusion and ambiguities arising from past court decisions indicate that segregation will continue to be one of the nation's more pressing problems in the years to come. (Author/GC)
Publication Type: Reports - Research
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Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: Brown v Board of Education
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