… schools. As time passed and an increas-ingly militant civil rights movement reached from the
rural South into the urban North, interest in the old cause of Southern school integration has …

… the architects and advocates of free and universal state schools in the South.5 … the South.
Persistently, Sumner and his supporters tried to enact a civil rights bill that would outlaw school …

… federal efforts to reconstruct Southern education under the aegis of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
… the activities of a few civil servants in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare who …

… at a large southern state university did better than those at two elite private colleges in the
… Racists in Congress tried to kill the 1964 Civil Rights Act by loading it with what they thought …

… southern education; in 1964, 1 percent of the Negro … schools; by 1967, close to 20 percent
of the Negro students in the South were in integrated classrooms; and Health, Education and …

… still incomplete desegregation of southern public schools.' The … the Brown decision and the
civil rights legislation of the mid-1960s… the 1964 presidential election, found Peripheral South …

… southern systems, 68 percent of the black students were in majority white schools; in majority
black school … , all three school desegregation tools of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 had been …

… ’s CRA was not only designed to address the continuation of deep inequalities in Southern
schools; the act also sought to resolve the perpetuation of Southern apartheid in education. …

… examine the all-black colleges of the South, for during Reconstruction they were either
church-… to public schools or schools that were absorbed into the Southern public school systems. …

… 1964 Civil Rights Act. With that Act, a third phase of modest integration began in the efforts of
… 14 Take, for example, a Southern county with two elementary schools. Half the elementary …