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The Little Rock School District's Quest For Unitary Status, Honorable Robert L. Brown
The Little Rock School District's Quest For Unitary Status, Honorable Robert L. Brown
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review
This essay discusses the major judicial benchmarks affecting the Little Rock School District since Brown v. Board of Education, andl additionally touches on attitudinal stumbling blocks between the races where problems continue to arise and where suspicions run deep.
After some forty years of litigation the Little Rock School District has been declared unitary in all respects by the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas. There are judicial benchmarks since Brown and three cases bear mentioning. The initial focus of the essay is on the unitary-status decisions handed down by the Federal District Court, and specifically by …