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SPECTIVES national and world news & views U.S. School Segregation at Levels Last Seen in 69 By Michael Dobbs | The Washington Post Half a century after the Supreme Court ordered the desegregation of American education, schools are almost as segregated as they were when Martin Luther King was assassinated, according to a new report released by Harvard University researchers. The study by the Harvard Civil Rights Project, shows that progress toward school desegregation peaked in the late 1980s as courts concluded that the goals of the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision Brown vs. Board of Education had largely been achieved. Over the past 15 years, the trend has been in the opposite direction, and most white students now have little contact with minority students in many areas of the country, according to the report. We are celebrating a victory over segregation at a time when schools across the nation are becoming increasingly segregated, noted the report, which was issued on the eve of the holiday celebrating Martin Luther Kings birthday. Triggered by a civil rights case in Topeka, Kan., the Brown decision marked the start of three decades of intensive efforts by the federal government to integrate public schools, first through court orders that opened white schools to minority students and later through busing. Its most dramatic impact was in southern states, where the percentage of blacks attending predominantly white schools increased from zero in 1954 to 43 percent in 1988. By 2001, according to the Harvard data, the figure had fallen to 30 percent, or about the level in 1969, the year after Kings assassination. We are losing many of the gains of desegregation, said Harvard professor Gary Orfield, the primary author of the report. We are not back to where we were before Brown, but we are back to when King was assassinated. The Harvard study suggests that Hispanic students are even more segregated than African American students, while Asian Americans are the most integrated ethnic group in the country. The increase in Latino segregation has been particularly marked in western states, where more than 80 percent of Latinos attend predominantly minority schools, compared with 42 percent in 1968. Despite the national trend toward resegregation, there are significant differences among states and regions, Orfield said. Maryland is one of the most rapidly resegregating states in the country, he said, partly because of the phasing out of court-ordered busing in Prince Georges and Baltimore counties and partly because of migration patterns. The District of Columbia has long been one of the most segregated school districts in the nation, a trend accentuated in recent years by the exodus of white middle-class families. The most segregated states for black students are New York and Illinois; the most integrated are Kentucky and Washington. For Latinos, the most segregated states are New York and California; the most integrated states are Wyoming and Ohio. Virginia ranks somewhere in the middle for both African Americans and Hispanics. According to Orfield and other researchers, the resegregation trend picked up momentum as a result of a 1991 Supreme Court decision that authorized a return to neighborhood schools instead of busing, even if such a step would lead to segregation. The consequences were particularly dramatic in school districts such as Prince Georges Countys that were declared unitary by the courts, meaning that they had made a good faith effort at integration. According to the Harvard data, the average black student in Prince Georges County attends schools with 12 percent fewer white students than a decade ago. In Charlotte, black exposure to white students has dropped by 16 percent, and in DeKalb County, Ga., it has declined by 72 percent. Most schools in this country are overwhelmingly black or overwhelmingly white, said Elise Boddie, head of the education department of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc., which litigates civil rights cases. We have still not committed ourselves as a country to the mandate of Brown versus Board of Education. If these trends are not reversed, we could easily find ourselves back to 1954. The report said that a massive migration of black and Latino families toward the suburbs is producing hundreds of new segregated and unequal schools and frustrating the dream of middle-class minority families for access to the most competitive schools. It predicted that the suburbs soon could be threatened with the problems of ghettoization that have already affected big urban areas. Such a development, the report warned, would bring the nation closer to the nightmare of two school systems and two housing markets mentioned by King in one of his last public appearances. There have been considerable gains in some areas, such as the number of (minority) students attending college, said John Jackson, education director for the NAACP. But you still find many school districts across the country that are segregated and unequal. The implications are the same as in the 50s: Minority students in high poverty areas are not getting a quality education. 2004 WASHINGTON POST February | Black History Month Lets Get Historical Questions about Black History Month: 1. When did we start marking Black History Month? 2. Why is Feb. 3 an important date in black history? 3. Where did the Harlem Globetrotters first play basketball? 4. Who was the first black U.S. senator? 5. Who was Ralph Bunche? Answers: 1. The United States has honored black history every year since 1926. But until 1976, it was only a week, first called Negro History Week. 2. On this date in 1870, the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed. It gave blacks the right to vote. 3. The team, originally called the Savoy Big Five, was based in Chicago and played its first game in 1927. Later, the Globetrotters became on-court comedians. 4. Hiram R. Revels was elected to the Senate by the Mississippi legislature and took office on Feb. 25, 1870. 5. He was a political scientist who became the first black to win the Nobel Peace Prize. He won the honor in 1950 for his work on Middle East peace in 1948. 2004 WASHINGTON POST
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