Evans v. Buchanan’s Empirical Analysis

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4 district ·

Most-quoted passages

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1. “The mandate of the Court of Appeals envisages two separate but parallel streams flowing concurrently toward the same goal, a `wholly integrated' school system in which all students compelled by law to attend Delaware public schools will receive education on a racially nondiscriminatory basis. Part (A) of the plan must allow Negro students desiring integration to transfer immediately to white or integrated schools as a matter of right subject only to the usual and nondiscriminatory processing of the school system. Part (B), however, looks to the future and must provide for the ingredients of a wholly integrated system. It must further look to the interim period when the number of Negro students desiring integration increases and provide adequate facilities and procedures to accommodate them. Evans v. Buchanan, 195 F.Supp. 321, 322-323 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Evans v. Buchanan

2. “of the plan, which looked to the future, was submission by the State Board to the Delaware General Assembly of a new school code which would eliminate all distinctions in public education based on race. Id. at 325 . The court retained jurisdiction. The State Board defendants appear to have made good faith efforts to comply with part”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Evans v. Buchanan