St. Paul, Minnestota, Segregation Crisis

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"In the late 1960s and early 1970s, St. Paul, Minnesota, underwent a protracted and at times highly charged school-segregation controversy. This study examines how the encounter between patterns of de facto school segregation arising from a history of de facto housing segregation in St. Paul and the process where

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"In the late 1960s and early 1970s, St. Paul, Minnesota, underwent a protracted and at times highly charged school-segregation controversy. This study examines how the encounter between patterns of de facto school segregation arising from a history of de facto housing segregation in St. Paul and the process whereby integration of elementary and secondary schools was resolved. As Foster noted (172) in 1963, "problems raised by de facto segregation are more sophisticated and more subtle, and they stem from complex causes." St. Paul was typical of this situation, inasmuch as housing and employment patterns had the effect of concentrating minorities in poor neighborhoods with poor nearby schools and facilities. In these neighborhoods, there were fewer property owners, fewer property taxes paying for that target nearby schools. What Maslow explained (154) about New York city..."

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