Last Saturday, May 17, 2014, was the 60th Anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education court decision that struck down de
jure school segregation.
It took the Supreme Court and the Justice Department to end de
jure school segregation and the 101st Airborne Division to integrate Little Rock Central High.
Not exact matches
This
school dissimilarity index fell from 81 percent to 71 percent between 1968 and 1980, when southern
schools were taking strong steps to eliminate de
jure segregation.
The effort to end de
jure segregation back then enjoyed broad public and judicial support; OCR worked hand in hand with the federal courts to desegregate southern
schools.
Yet each case cited spells out the remedies appropriate for
school systems already found guilty of de
jure segregation.
«Maryland, as one of 17 states that had de
jure segregation, has an intense history of
school segregation.
These students» departures, because of the skewed demographics that exist as a result of decades of de facto and de
jure segregation laws, left the public
schools less racially stratified as a result.
In doing so, ideas such as de
jure and de facto
segregation — important terms in the court's decision on Boston Public
Schools — will bubble to the surface.
While Brown v. Board of Education and Brown II, 1954 and 1956, declared de
jure segregation illegal,
schools have remained segregated due to de facto
segregation.