Word: detroits
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...DETROIT: Court Retreat
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...
...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 than 30% as sufficiently desegregated, a standard that is met at present by 79% of Detroit's 326 public schools...
...tolerance among moderate blacks of a cooler, slower pace of desegregation is already becoming apparent in some cities. Militants, of course, have long scoffed at the idea that black children must be seated next to whites in order to receive a good education. But today such black mayors as Detroit's Young and Atlanta's Maynard Jackson concede that busing poses formidable economic and political problems that must be reckoned with. Even University of Chicago Sociologist James Coleman, one of the most influential early advocates of classroom desegregation, now argues that mandated busing on a large scale...
Signs of industrial affluence greeted the visitors-some 200 Protestant and Roman Catholic theologians, social scientists and assorted activists from North and South America-almost from the moment they arrived in Detroit last week. Even in a recession year, the Goodyear billboard near the airport was totting up by the seconds the autos manufactured in 1975: 3,835,001; 3,835,002. But deeper in the city the scene turned bleak: shuttered stores, decaying neighborhoods, jobless men wandering the streets. The contrast seemed particularly telling to the travelers, who had come to the Motor City for a conference on Christian...