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- 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, according to the State Bar of Michigan. In response, Michigan's state Legislature repealed that plan.
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Sep 13, 2016 · From the 1950s on, white people started leaving Detroit and moving to the suburbs. By 1970, only one-in-three students at Detroit Public Schools was a white kid. And those white kids were concentrated in mostly white schools. Detroit schools were segregated.
- Lester Graham
Feb 25, 2016 · In 1970, the school board introduced a modest desegregation plan that would have involved two-way integration of 11 of the city’s 22 high schools. That plan was overturned by the state legislature, and additional developments led local and national NAACP leaders to file a comprehensive suit in federal district court challenging school ...
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...
- Lily Altavena
- Educational Equity Reporter
Jul 25, 2019 · Bradley case began in 1970 when the NAACP sued Michigan’s governor, William Milliken, and other top officials on behalf of a Detroit student. The NAACP argued that the state had intentionally...
The Detroit school desegregation case initiated in August 1970 against state officials, the Detroit Board of Education, and the superintendent of the Detroit Public Schools (DPS) was an inflection point in school desegregation jurisprudence. 1 The impact of the United States Supreme Court’s sharply divided decision in Milliken v.
Nov 12, 2013 · For State of Opportunity, I've been wading through hours of audio and stacks of research for months about Detroit's mid-1970's busing controversy. More specifically, the educational fall-out from the Milliken v. Bradley case. Here's what happened. 1. Busing was used as a last resort to fix segregated schools.
By 1970-1971, white violence against black students in the integrated junior and senior high schools had become so extreme and common that the Detroit Police Department faced substantial pressure to control the white community rather than continue its default approach of criminalizing, beating, and arresting black students during outbreaks of ...
