ABSTRACT
Few would argue that great progress toward racial integration of America did not result from Brown v. Board of Education and its progeny, although few will deny that the “promise” of Brown has not been fulfilled. Gary Orfield, a leading authority on racial discrimination, has documented the extensive segregation that still remains in public education.1 His studies have shown that desegregation abated and “resegregation” increased as African-American families were cordoned off into large cities, into a few benighted suburbs, and into many poor southern counties and school districts.2 While substantial progress was made in the integration of higher education during the last half century, great differences still persist among institutions that are commonly viewed as primarily for white or black students. For
1 Gary Orfield, Schools More Separate: Consequences of a Decade of Resegregation 3 (Cambridge, Mass.: Civil Rights Project, Harvard University Press, 2001).
