Northern schools moved backward on desegregation while southern schools made measurable progress.

Evidence

So while the South was making important strides towards desegregation, the North was not making any Significant moves in the same direction and actually regressed towards segregation. — Marcy Crouch, Magnet Schools and Other Means of…, 10

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: School desegregation, not deindustrialization, drove urban reshaping in the Sunbelt South — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 39