Atlanta’s placement bureaucracy admitted just nine black students of thousands

Evidence

In truth, the demand for transfers was strong, but the pupil placement system rebuffed most of them. Nearly 300 black students made the trip to city hall to pick up transfer applications in May 1961. The window for returning them was tight, just two weeks, and less than half completed the complicated forms by the deadline. From that pool of 133, only 16 made the final round of interviews and just 10 had their requests approved. Of those, only 9 would actually make the move. Meanwhile, nearly 50,000 black students remained in still-segregated schools. — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 348

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Atlanta’s celebrated moderation enforced only token minimal desegregation — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 311; School token integration recreated segregation inside schools — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 366