The 1974 Milliken ruling blocked metropolitan desegregation by barring interdistrict busing.

Evidence

In the face of such widespread opposition, the Supreme Court retreated. In Milliken v. Bradley (Milliken 1, 1974) the Court curtailed the power of district court judges to remedy segregation.”? The judge in Milliken had ordered busing between Detroit and surrounding suburban school districts to relieve segregation in the city’s schools. By a 5-4 vote, the Court reversed the lower court, holding that because the suburban districts had not participated in the segregation of the Detroit schools, they were not obliged to participate in efforts to desegregate them. By prohibiting interdistrict busing except when suburban districts had connived to segregate inner-city schools, the Court undercut efforts to integrate Northern urban school districts. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 3035

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the desegregation-implementation narrative from ch13-14 of this book; also ties to milliken’s role in segregation remedy debates. — connects to: Suburban school district fragmentation structurally enabled white flight from desegregation. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 3026; White suburbanites blocked mass transit to keep Black urban residents out of their counties — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project: A New American Origin…, 1202; The US Supreme Court’s Milliken ruling barred suburban-wide desegregation remedies — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 1186

Broader Connections

• White suburbanites blocked mass transit to keep Black urban residents out of their counties #qualifies (0.75) — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 1202