"Busing—The Supreme Court Goes North"
Magazine article
By: Christopher Jencks
Date: 1972
Source: Jencks, Christopher. "Busing—The Supreme Court Goes North." The New York Times Magazine, November 19, 1972, 41, 118.
About the Author: Christopher "Sandy" Jencks (1936–) is the Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy at Harvard University. He was educated at Harvard and the London School of Economics and Political Science. Jencks's research deals with the inequality in the standard of living over the past generation.
Introduction
Numerous cases regarding desegregation of schools made their way to the Supreme Court in addition to the 1954 decision in Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka. That decision, sometimes referred to as Brown I, stated that state-imposed segregated schools were unequal and illegal. The Brown I decision set the path for integration in the...
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