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SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
United States v. Yonkers

1:80-cv-06761 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Dec. 1, 1980

Case Ongoing

This is a school and housing desegregation case in Yonkers, New York. The initial complaint was filed by the U.S. Department of Justice in 1980, and the Yonkers branch of the NAACP intervened in 1981 to make the case a class action. After 27 years, the parties settled in 2007, with Yonkers agreeing to build 800 units of public housing in predominantly-white East and Northwest Yonkers. This case was highly contentious: in the late 1980s, Yonkers defied the court’s desegregation orders, resulting…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
CODING IN PROCESS
Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission v. School District of Philadelphia

73-01056 | Pennsylvania state trial court

Filed Date: 1973

Case Ongoing

SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
CODING IN PROCESS
Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education

U. S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

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SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
CODING IN PROCESS
Conley v. Lake Charles School Board, Calcasieu Parish School Board

2:64-cv-09981 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: 1964

(This summary is temporary, while we continue to research this case.) These twenty-nine school desegregation cases in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana were consolidated after they were remanded by the Fifth Circuit in Adams v. Mathews. In Adams, the Fifth Circuit ordered the district court to determine if freedom of choice plans were “adequate to convert the dual system to a unitary system in which racial discrimination would be eliminated root and branch.” The dist…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
CODING IN PROCESS
Crawford v. Board of Education of the City of Los Angeles

63-822854 | California state trial court

Filed Date: 1963

Closed Date: 1982

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) According to the U.S. Supreme Court's summary of this case, "In a California state court action seeking desegregation of the schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District (District), the trial court, in 1970, found de jure segregation in violation of both the State and Federal Constitutions and ordered the District to prepare a desegregation plan. The California Supreme Court affirmed, but based its decision solely upon the Equal Pro…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
CODING IN PROCESS
Green v. Connally

1:69-01355 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: May 21, 1969

Parents of black Mississippi public school children alleged in this class action that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) was supporting the maintenance of segregated schooling by providing tax benefits to discriminatory private schools and their donors. The court granted the plaintiffs a permanent injunction that restricted the IRS from providing tax benefits to these schools.  On December 20, 1971, the Supreme Court summarily affirmed the decision in Coit v. Green, 404 U.S. 997 (1971). This wa…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
CODING IN PROCESS
Wright v. Allen

1:76-01426 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: July 30, 1976

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case).   Parents of black public school children alleged in this 1976 nationwide class action that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has not adopted sufficient standards and procedures to fulfill its obligation to deny tax-exempt status to racially discriminatory private schools. They asserted that the IRS thereby harmed them directly and interfered with the ability of their children to receive an education in desegregated public schools. The c…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Montgomery v. Starkville Municipal Separate School District

1:83-cv-00293 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: July 1, 1983

Case Ongoing

This is a school desegregation case arising out of Starkville, Mississippi. Plaintiffs, black students and their families, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi and alleged that Starkville maintained a dual educational system that was segregated on the basis of race. They sought injunctive relief from the court to eliminate the dual system. The case was first filed in 1969 as Bell v. Starkville Municipal School District, and given the docket number 69-37…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Lee v. Macon County Bd. of Ed.

3:63-cv-00604 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 1963

Closed Date: 1970

IntroductionThis case began on 1963 when a group of Black students and parents sought to desegregate the twenty public schools of Macon County, Alabama. At that time seventeen of the county’s schools were designated for Black children and three for white children. This was one of many such cases dealing with school desegregation on a school system-by-system basis. Soon after the case was filed, the court ordered the desegregation of Macon County’s schools. However, after interference from Gover…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Lee and United States of America v. Macon County School Board (N.D. Ala. Case)

2:70-cv-00251 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: 1970

This Clearinghouse entry discusses the post 1970 proceedings in Lee v. Macon County, a seminal Alabama desegregation case. That case originated in the Middle District of Alabama and was transferred to a three-judge district court which supervised school desegregation across the state. However, after 1970, the statewide case was dissolved and desegregation cases in individual school districts were sent to the judicial districts that encompassed them. This Clearinghouse entry describes the Lee li…