THE DESEGREGATION OF COLUMBUS SCHOOLS, 1977-1978
In 1977, U.S. Circuit Court Judge Robert Duncan ruled in Penick v. Columbus Board of Education that the Columbus school district kept African-American and white students in separate schools by creating boundaries that sent African-American students to predominantly African-American schools and white students to predominantly white schools. Following the ruling, the Board began busing to create a desegregated school district.
Desegregation Panel Discussion
A Panel discussion featuring former Columbus educators John Farley and Cora Miller. Recorded for a History Speaks Teaching American History seminar in 2010.
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John Farley discusses the civil unrest of the early 1970s during his first year as a teacher at Linden-McKinley High School.
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Cora Miller shares her experiences as a student in Columbus schools in the 1960s and as a teacher in the district in the 1970s.
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John Farley outlines the details of the desegregation plan.
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Cora Miller points out the benefits of required busing for desegregation.
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Was desegregation a good thing for Columbus? John Farley and Cora Miller share their thoughts.
Getting Around Brown: Desegregation, development, and the columbus Public Schools
by Gregory S. Jacobs
1998, The Ohio State University Press
Getting Around Brown is both the first history of school desegregation in Columbus, Ohio, and the first case study to explore the interplay of desegregation, business, and urban development in America.
Click here to download the chapters in PDF.
1998, The Ohio State University Press
Getting Around Brown is both the first history of school desegregation in Columbus, Ohio, and the first case study to explore the interplay of desegregation, business, and urban development in America.
Click here to download the chapters in PDF.
Newspaper Articles
Articles on school desegregation from the Columbus Dispatch.
