The Louisville school district had done so even after court-ordered desegregation was lifted in 2000.
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Not so long ago, the filibuster was practically synonymous with Southern resistance to desegregation.
And I think that the south is the only area that's experienced serious desegregation.
The Supreme Court didn't even require desegregation in the north until almost 20 years after Brown.
Mr. Brittain says, our judicial system deserves credit for ordering desegregation in its landmark 1954 Brown v.
That pleased parts of the South, especially among those who thought that desegregation was a bad idea.
Other decisions in the 1970s and '80s continued to define the reach and limits of desegregation plans.
"They've been defeated with certain desegregation efforts, " acknowledges Harvard's Gary Orfield of the Little Rock School District.
And it almost suggests that we have reached a point where the government has given up on desegregation.
The arguments in that case catalyzed the desegregation of our schools and prevailed in the landmark case Brown v.
The bill relates to the 2009 settlement of a desegregation lawsuit against Westchester.
It finds all of the places that ended desegregation did not have the predicted tide of whites coming back.
After the Green decision, the pace of desegregation picked up across the country.
The basic transition, racial transition that we see in our cities took place whether or not there was school desegregation.
Local administrators today are focusing on attainable desegregation goals, Orfield says, such as continuing magnet school and student transfer programs.
They both need to be done because there's no desegregation policy that's going to accomplish everything in any short period of time.
That's only possible because of the principle of desegregation in public education.
The court wrapped up its session yesterday, overturning two school desegregation plans.
Often when you talk about desegregation, a lot of people look south.
Urban renewal and desegregation led whites to leave central Memphis and turned places like the Courts into last refuges for disheartened blacks.
The district and the plaintiffs agreed to a desegregation plan in 1998.
It's basically housing driven, and we see it in cities like Chicago, Atlanta, New York, Philadelphia, LA, that never had significant school desegregation.
Dowell -- considered as much of a landmark ruling in the desegregation saga as the 1954 Brown and 1968 Green rulings, Douglas said.
The justices said court-ordered plans were not intended "to operate in perpetuity, " and allowed districts to be released from desegregation obligations once fulfilled .
"It's really important not to think of desegregation as just a body count, " said Ann Marshall, head of the federal Office of Desegregation Monitoring.
Observers say a declaration of complete desegregation -- unitary in the legal term -- is likely another year or two away for Little Rock schools.
In 1958, Justice John Marshall Harlan echoed a similar sentiment when the Court deliberated its first major case involving school desegregation since the 1954 Brown v.
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And this term, the court limited voluntary school desegregation plans in public schools and that's just three years after the court upheld affirmative action in higher education.
The court delivered decisions that limit voluntary school desegregation plans, curb student free speech rights and struck down a key provision of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law.
In the early 1980s, it sued two other local school districts and the state of Arkansas for practices that hindered desegregation, and sought consolidation of the districts.
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