Busing of Schoolchildren: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights of ... , 93-2, Feb, 19, 20, & 21, 1974, Volumen891974 - 384 páginas |
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... Brown v . Board of Education of Topeka , Kans . , 347 U.S. 483 ( 1954 ) . Green v . County School Board of New Kent County , Va . 391 U.S. 430 ( 1968 ) . 336 341 Ex Parte William H. McCardle , 74 U.S. ( 7 Wall . ) 506 ( 1869 ) - Swann v ...
... Brown v . Board of Education of Topeka , Kans . , 347 U.S. 483 ( 1954 ) . Green v . County School Board of New Kent County , Va . 391 U.S. 430 ( 1968 ) . 336 341 Ex Parte William H. McCardle , 74 U.S. ( 7 Wall . ) 506 ( 1869 ) - Swann v ...
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... Brown v . Board of Education in 1954 , and the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 , this Nation has been engaged in a most complex , and at times turbulent process of carrying out the judicial decree of the High Court and the will ...
... Brown v . Board of Education in 1954 , and the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 , this Nation has been engaged in a most complex , and at times turbulent process of carrying out the judicial decree of the High Court and the will ...
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... labor on this vexing subject , seem especially pertinent as the subcommittee searches for criteria to guide the district courts in shaping desegregation remedies : Experience since the 1954 Brown decision has taught us that 28.
... labor on this vexing subject , seem especially pertinent as the subcommittee searches for criteria to guide the district courts in shaping desegregation remedies : Experience since the 1954 Brown decision has taught us that 28.
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... Brown decision has taught us that de- segregated schools are not by themselves a sufficient precondition for quality education . It is becoming increasingly clear that the integration of low - achiev- ing black or other minority ...
... Brown decision has taught us that de- segregated schools are not by themselves a sufficient precondition for quality education . It is becoming increasingly clear that the integration of low - achiev- ing black or other minority ...
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... Brown case , as you know , that it is unconstitutional under the equal protection clause to deny children the right to attend a particular school on account of race . The Supreme Court came full circle by the time it decided the Swann ...
... Brown case , as you know , that it is unconstitutional under the equal protection clause to deny children the right to attend a particular school on account of race . The Supreme Court came full circle by the time it decided the Swann ...
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14th amendment action appeal areas assignment attend basis of race bill black students Board of Education Brown Chairman Charlotte Charlotte-Mecklenburg Charlotte-Mecklenburg School citizens Civil Rights Act color committee Congress constitutional rights County court order decision denied desegregation plan discrimination District Court dual school systems educational agency effect elementary enforcement equal protection clause fact Federal courts forced busing Fourteenth Amendment freedom of choice hear high school implementation integration issue JESSE HELMS judge judicial Judiciary Justice legislation ment miles national origin neighborhood schools North Carolina parents percent Prince Georges County problems proposed Public School Jurisdiction pupils question racial imbalance racial segregation remedy result school authorities school board school buses school children school desegregation school district School Jurisdiction Act segregated schools Senator ERVIN subcommittee Swann teachers tion transportation U.S. Senate U.S. Supreme Court unconstitutional unitary school system United violation
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Página 323 - We come then to the question presented: Does segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race, even though the physical facilities and other "tangible" factors may be equal, deprive the children of the minority group of equal educational opportunities?
Página 323 - To separate them from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.
Página 270 - The powers of the legislature are defined and limited; and that those limits may not be mistaken, or forgotten, the constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended to be restrained?
Página 270 - The Constitution is either a superior, paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, and, like other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. If the former part of the alternative be true, then a legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law ; if the latter part be true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts on the part of the people to limit a power in its own nature illimitable.
Página 323 - We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal
Página 307 - To that end, the courts may consider problems related to administration, arising from the physical condition of the school plant, the school transportation system, personnel, revision of school districts and attendance areas into compact units to achieve a system of determining admission to the public schools on a nonracial basis, and revision of local laws and regulations which may be necessary in solving the foregoing problems.
Página 323 - We must consider public education in the light of its full development and its present place in American life throughout 493 the Nation. Only in this way can it be determined if segregation in public schools deprives these plaintiffs of the equal protection of the laws. Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.
Página 269 - When we consider the nature and the theory of our institutions of government, the principles upon which they are supposed to rest, and review the history of their development, we are constrained to conclude that they do not mean to leave room for the play and action of purely personal and arbitrary power.
Página 322 - separate but equal" did not make its appearance in this court until 1896 in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson, supra, involving not education but transportation. American courts have since labored with the doctrine for over half a century. In this court, there have been six cases involving the "separate but equal" doctrine in the field of public education.
Página 197 - General to institute federal suits, contains the following proviso: "nothing herein shall empower any official or court of the United States to issue any order seeking to achieve a racial balance in any school by requiring the transportation of pupils or students from one school to another or one school district to another in order to achieve such racial balance, or otherwise enlarge the existing power of the court to insure compliance with constitutional standards.