ReportU.S. Government Printing Office, 1969 - Civil rights |
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action aff'd Alabama Attending Predominantly Negro Attending Predominantly White Attorney black students Board of Education Civil Rights Act Commission on Civil complete desegregation compliance County School court orders Crenshaw County decision delay Department of Health Department of Justice desegre desegregation plans efforts to desegregate elementary and secondary F.Supp Federal funds Fifth Circuit formerly all-white schools freedom-of-choice plans Georgia guidelines HEW's High School Inadequate Manpower July 3 statement Lancaster School District Legislature Louisiana Macon County Marshall County means of desegregating Meredith Mississippi Negro Students Attending Negro teachers Number of Negro Number of White officials Orleans Parish Parish School Board Predominantly White Schools problems public schools Race Rel racially segregated Referred to HEW school districts secondary schools September South Carolina Southern and Border Southern District Southern School Desegregation Students Attending Predominantly substantive response Supp Supreme Court Texas Received Total Negro Students Total Number U.S. Commission Welfare white-attended schools
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Page 7 - ... [t]he burden on a school board today is to come forward with a plan that promises realistically to work, and promises realistically to work now.
Page 51 - To that end, the courts may consider problems related to administration, arising from the physical condition of the school plant, the school transportation system, personnel, revision of school districts and attendance areas into compact units to achieve a system of determining admission to the public schools on a nonracial basis, and revision of local laws and regulations which may be necessary in solving the foregoing problems.
Page 32 - ... (2) that such fiscal control and fund accounting procedures will be adopted as may be necessary to assure proper disbursement of, and accounting for Federal funds paid to the State...
Page 4 - Once such a start has been made, the courts may find that additional time is necessary to carry out the ruling in an effective manner. The burden rests upon the defendants to establish that such time is necessary in the public interest and is consistent with good faith compliance at the earliest practicable date.
Page 6 - Accordingly, it is not our purpose here to lay down a single arbitrary date by which the desegregation process should be completed in all districts, or to lay down a single, arbitrary system by which it should be achieved.
Page 1 - This administration is unequivocally committed to the goal of finally ending racial discrimination in schools, steadily and speedily, in accordance with the law of the land. The new procedures set forth in this statement are designed to achieve that goal in a way that will improve, rather than disrupt, the education of the children concerned.
Page 27 - Resort to the courts to seek vindication of constitutional rights is a different matter from the oppressive, malicious, or avaricious use of the legal process for purely private gain. Lawsuits attacking racial discrimination, at least in Virginia, are neither very profitable nor very popular. They are not an object of general competition among Virginia lawyers; the problem is rather one of an apparent dearth of lawyers who are willing to undertake such litigation.
Page 2 - In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny. . . and I say . . . segregation now . .. segregation tomorrow . . . segregation forever.
Page 6 - The obligation of the district courts, as it always has been, is to assess the effectiveness of a proposed plan in achieving desegregation. There is no universal answer to complex problems of desegregation ; there is obviously no one plan that will do the job in every case.
Page 25 - No part of the funds contained in this Act shall be used to force any school or...