Black migration to Northern cities pushed desegregation litigation beyond the South

Evidence

During the late 1960s and the 1970s, plaintiffs expanded the scope of desegregation efforts, challenging racial segregation in Northern urban districts as well as in the South. The decision to confront Northern school segregation seemed logical. With the massive emigration of African Americans from the South in first half of the twentieth century, a large and increasing percentage of black schoolchildren lived in Northern urban areas, and many attended single-race schools. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 3017

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Biracial unions drove northern desegregation but their decline splintered liberal-labor alliances — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 39