Filed Date: 1964
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The parents maintained that the board had not taken appropriate steps to desegregate the school because no white child had chosen to go the traditionally all black school and only 15 percent of the black children attended the traditionally all white school. The parents asserted that better options were available that would affirmatively cause integration. The court reversed the decision and held that the board's freedom-of-choice plan could not be accepted as a sufficient step to effectuate a transition to a unitary system. In the three years that the plan had been in place during the appeals, virtually no integration had occurred. Rather than affirmatively dismantling the old dual system, the plan placed the burden of integration on the parents. The court ordered the board to adopt steps to convert promptly to a system without a segregated school. It was incumbent on the board to establish that any proposed plan promised meaningful and immediate progress toward disestablishing state-imposed segregation.
Freeman v. Pitts, Northern District of Georgia (1968)
Doar, John (District of Columbia)
Pollak, Stephen J. (District of Columbia)
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Landsberg, Brian K. (District of Columbia)
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Wallace, Lawrence G. (District of Columbia)
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Filing Date: 1964
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County School Board of New Kent County, Virginia, School District
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