Technically, Tulsa public schools desegregated in the fall semester of 1955, when students were supposed to be enrolled in neighborhood schools without regard to race. In practice, however, an open transfer policy left the schools as divided as ever, allowing white students to move to schools that didnt have black enrollment, according to a 1977 history of school desegregation by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
Posted on: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 01:20:01 +0000
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