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- 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 largely African-American city — Detroit — and its white suburban areas. The ruling helped cement differences between urban schools and suburban neighborhoods.
www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/11/19/245970277/how-courts-bus-ruling-sealed-differences-in-detroit-schoolsHow Court's Bus Ruling Sealed Differences In Detroit Schools
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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]
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.
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...
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The case was controversial because it involved busing student between a largely African-American city — Detroit — and its white suburban areas. The ruling helped cement differences between...
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.
Nov 19, 2019 · The desegregation case was first ruled on at the District Court level by Judge Stephen Roth. Because of the city’s racial makeup and the ongoing trend of white flight, Hammer says Roth believed a desegregation plan for Detroit schools would have to include the suburbs.
Jul 29, 2024 · The Milliken v. Bradley court case ruled on by the U.S. Supreme Court has shaped school integration efforts since the 1970s. Here are the key events of the school busing case.
