25 July 1974
Education / court rulingBook sources
Milliken restricts metropolitan school desegregation remedies
Detroit metropolitan area, Michigan; Black students
In Milliken v. Bradley, the Supreme Court rejected the metropolitan desegregation remedy ordered for Detroit and surrounding districts without the required showing of an interdistrict constitutional violation. The decision limited the available response to segregation in a city separated from largely white suburban school districts.
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Context / qualification
The ruling concerned the evidentiary basis and reach of an interdistrict remedy. It was not a nationwide ban on busing or a determination that Detroit’s schools were free of unlawful segregation.
Sources
- Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States, chapter 21, pp. 581–582; supplied print pages, edition/year unidentified
- Milliken v. Bradley, 418 U.S. 717 (1974): Supreme Court opinion ↗