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Milliken v. Bradley, 418 U.S. 717 (1974), was a significant United States Supreme Court case dealing with the planned desegregation busing of public school students across district lines among 53 school districts in metropolitan Detroit. [1] It concerned the plans to integrate public schools in the United States following the Brown v.
Jul 24, 2024 · In 1970, Detroit's school board passed a voluntary desegregation plan of the city's high schools, which was met with opposition from white families, sparking a walkout of white students,...
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- Educational Equity Reporter
Jul 25, 2019 · A district court judge agreed, and issued a metro area-wide desegregation order that included the mostly black schools in Detroit and 53 mostly white suburban districts.
President Lyndon Johnson convened the Kerner Commission to identify the genesis of the violent riots that killed 43 people in Detroit; the commission concluded that school integration should be “the priority education strategy; it is essential to the future of American society. ….
Jul 29, 2024 · Fifty years later, the SCOTUS ruling still affects segregation in Detroit schools and beyond. Legal scholars say it eroded the progress of Brown v. Board of Education. Here's how.
- Robyn Vincent
Jul 25, 2019 · A lower court judge ruled that the only way to meaningfully desegregate Detroit was to tear down those lines — those fences — and to bus students between the city and 53 suburban school...
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Nov 19, 2013 · Playlist. It was 40 years ago today that the Supreme Court accepted what became a landmark case about school desegregation. The case was controversial because it involved busing student between a...
