ABSTRACT
The school desegregation plan required that blacks and other racial minorities be offered up to 35% of the seats in the entering classes in the schools. Social movements seldom fulfill all of their intended goals, and there is no precise beginning or end to such a movement. The analysis has revealed the unintended consequences of school desegregation that were goals of neither the majority nor the minority. The prevailing research during the 1960s and 1970s about school desegregation seldom indicated any benefits for whites who were schooled in predominantly black learning environments. The implementation of some desegregation plans has compromised the rights of blacks. James Coleman discovered that black children in classrooms where more than half of the students are white score higher on achievement tests than do other black children; black children in classrooms with fewer whites reveal a wider spread in test performance.
