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Racial segregation in schools has increased, according to a report published in Washington yesterday by the Harvard Project on School Desegregation.
"The civil rights impulse from the 1960's is dead in the water and the ship is floating backward toward the shoals of racial segregation," according to the study, which was directed by Gary Orfield, professor of Education and Social Policy at the Graduate School of Education.
The report also noted that in the South, the most integrated section of the country, public schools are becoming increasingly racially divided "for the first time since the Supreme Court declared school segregation in the South unconstitutional in 1954."
As an example of legislation encouraging segregation, the report criticized the Supreme Court's 1974 Miliken v. Bradley decision for not mandating desegregation unless a district is proven to have caused the segregation.
When Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace, an ardent supporter of segregation, spoke in Sanders Theatre in 1968, he received a less-than-friendly welcome from the Harvard crowd--which surrounded the theater after his speech.