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Citing what he called "the practicalities of the situation," Federal District Court Judge Robert E. DeMascio rejected two cumbersome plans that had been prepared to put into effect a Supreme Court desegregation order. One of them, proposed by the N.A.A.C.P., would have bused some 77,000 of Detroit's 260,000 public school pupils up to twelve miles across town each day to bring about racial balance in the city's predominantly (71.5%) black classrooms. The other plan, prepared by the Detroit Board of Education, called for the busing of 51,000 students, with primary concentration on leveling...
...DeMascio argued plausibly that almost any large-scale busing scheme would yield only "negligible desegregation results" in the Motor City. Last year the Supreme Court ruled out "cross-district" busing of students between the city and the mostly white suburbs; thus limited to the city proper, busing could not do much more than merely shuffle students from one predominantly black school to another. The judge thought either plan would entail a massive effort, including the purchase of hundreds of buses, to little real effect. He called for new proposals that would accept any school with a black enrollment of more...
...N.A.A.C.P. denounced DeMascio's judgment as a "whitewash." But many Detroiters, including the city's black mayor Coleman Young, praised the decision. With audible relief, Young said he did not "believe we have the ingredients in this order for another Boston or Little Rock...
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