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- The court of appeals ordered the school district to integrate the schools by the beginning of the 1976-77 school year.
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In 1975, the Omaha Public School District received a court order to integrate its schools. While racial segregation was not an official school district policy, it was a result of the city’s long history of housing discrimination.
Feb 24, 2022 · On Aug. 10, 1973, the United States Department of Justice filed suit in United States District Court against Omaha Public Schools, alleging that, as a direct result of intentional actions by the school district, the OPS was illegally segregated.
Omaha World-Herald, Sept. 7, 1976. By the fall of 1976, 150 teachers were reassigned; 1,400 high school students voluntarily transferred; and 9,344 students were reassigned, 60 percent of which were White. As school year neared, people seemed more accepting of the court order’s terms.
Feb 6, 2018 · In 1977, the United States Supreme Court found that the Omaha School District practiced segregation in several ways, including discriminatory faculty assignments, school site selection, student transfer policies, feeder patterns, and school maintenance.
Schools in racially segregated areas did not provide the same educational opportunities as white, suburban schools. Together they led the way to desegregate Omaha Public Schools through mandatory busing, which allowed African Americans to attend schools outside their restricted area.
Apr 15, 2006 · Civil rights scholars call the legislation the most blatant recent effort in the nation to create segregated school systems or, as in Omaha, to resegregate districts that had been integrated by...
In 1971, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that federal courts could order busing to integrate public schools, and in 1976, a federal court order mandated busing in the Omaha Public School system.
