With 31,320 black male students, that's a
ratio of 42 to 1, compared with the
ratio of white male students to
white male
teachers of 9 to 1.
Starting in 1970, students and
teachers of both races were transferred throughout the district «so that the
ratio of Negro to
white teachers in each school [was] substantially the same as such
ratio to the
teachers in the entire school system (Causey, 2001).»