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OCR Page 1 of 27SCHOOLS
facts face one
Nearly sixteen years have passed since the Supreme Court,
in Brown V. Board of Education, laid down the principle that
deliberate segregation of students by race in the public schools
is unconstitutional.
The Brown case gave legal sanction to the doctrine that separation
established by law produces schools that are inherently unequal;
and that a promise of equality before the law cannot be squared with
use of the law to establish two classes of people, one black and one
white. This doctrine has since been extended not only to the schools but
also to all activities and institutions of government, at local and
state as well as at the Federal level.
Those sixteen years have seen determined efforts to enforce the
Court's decree, and also determined efforts to evade it. They also
have been growing confusion over what the constitutional principle
really means in practice. To what extent, for example, if any, does
desegregation of legally segregated schools require positive efforts
to achieve "racial balance? 11 How are the rights of individual children
to be balanced against the needs of enforcement? What are the
educational impacts of the various means of desegregation - and how should
the claims of education be balanced against those of integration? To what
extent should segregation plans take advance account of the problem of
resegregation - in the light of mounting experience that desegregation
often proves to be only a way station on the route to resegregation?
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