NAACP Accuses 5 States of Delaying Desegregation
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund sharply criticized the Education Department and five states today for failing to carry out court-approved desegregation plans in higher education.
The civil rights group said the states--Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Oklahoma and Virginia--failed to meet most parts of desegregation plans ordered in 1983 by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
“On virtually every measure, states have failed to meet their desegregation and enhancement targets,” said Julius Chambers, the fund’s director-counsel.
The desegregation plans of the five states include the establishment of specific goals to upgrade and enhance traditionally black colleges as well as the opening of traditionally white institutions to more black students and faculty.
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