Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...question in the suit is whether school children can be transported between Detroit and surrounding suburbs in order to desegregate Detroit schools...
Until the present, the courts have approved busing only within a single school district where violations have occurred. The Detroit plaintiffs argue that the high percentage of black school children in Detroit (65 per cent) precludes the possibility of an integrated system if busing is limited to the city...
Frank Kelley, attorney general of Michigan and counsel for the Michigan State Board of Education, which opposes a metropolitan solution, argued that because only the Detroit School Board, and none of the suburban boards, has been guilty of violations, a remedy for the resulting segregation could not involve suburban districts...
...city into the suburbs and vice-versa. The suburban school boards have appealed the decision. They contend that the federal government cannot require that their school children be bused, since the localities have not been guilty of intentionally segregating black from white students. The 84 suburban school districts surrounding Detroit claim a metropolitan busing order, in the absence of a demonstrated intent to segregate, is an unwarranted intrusion into their local government's legitimate authority...
...DETROIT CASE illustrates the meaninglessness of the distinction between de jure and de facto segregation. The city is a doughnut by fact, not by law. But it is the mere fact of its doughnutness that deprives the children of both the inner city and the suburbs of an equal education. The court should declare the de facto situation in Detroit unconstitutional and order a metropolitan solution for it and all urban centers with similar racial patterns. Only such a decision, with effects as far-reaching as Brown's, will ensure that both races become educated in the broadest sense...