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St. Louis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

Ralph Reisner
Ralph Reisner*
Affiliation:
University of Illinois
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St. Louis is the only community among the eight cities here being considered which until 1954 operated a segregated system of public education. Substantial compliance with the desegregation mandated by the fourteenth amendment was effected rapidly and with a minimum of dislocation. The initial stages of desegregation took place against a background of rapid population shifts. Like many metropolitan central cities, St. Louis has suffered an absolute decline in population since World War II, a decline which was sharpest in the 1950–60 decade when a net loss of over 100,000 residents occurred. During the same period the suburban area around St. Louis experienced an increase in population in excess of 50%.

Type
Research Article
Information
Law & Society Review , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , November 1967 , pp. 53 - 60
Copyright
Copyright © 1967 by the Law and Society Association

Footnotes

Editors' Note: Condensed by the staff of the Law & Society Review from a report to the United States Commissioner of Education (“Equality of Educational Opportunity in St. Louis,” 58 pp.), written while Professor Reisner was working on a project surveying equal educational opportunities for the United States Office of Education.