Word: segregationâ
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...confusion caused by the Administration's ambivalence on integration is best demonstrated by the beleaguered community of Pasadena, Calif. It was one of the first non-Southern school districts to be sued by the Justice Department for deliberately perpetuating de facto segregation???school imbalances resulting from residential racial patterns. Federal Judge Manuel Real found that Pasadena had failed to carry out integration plans and must act to eliminate segregation. School officials risked community wrath by deciding not to appeal the decision. But School Superintendent Ralph Hornbeck is understandably irritated. "It seems impossible to meet the court's criteria without compulsory...
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