Official action maintaining racial separation exposes an entire district to court remedies.

Evidence

The movement of desegregation crept north and in 1973 the Supreme Court ruled that if schools were being kept racially segregation because of official actions then the entire district could be deemed segregation and action to remedy this could be forced upon the school. — Marcy Crouch, Magnet Schools and Other Means of…, 8

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the de facto vs. de jure segregation distinction that governs later northern desegregation litigation.