America 1950-1959: Education Research Article from American Decades

This Study Guide consists of approximately 54 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of America 1950-1959.

America 1950-1959: Education Research Article from American Decades

This Study Guide consists of approximately 54 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of America 1950-1959.
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Based on New York Times survey, 15 September 1957 (school populations estimated)

Alabama — None (273,200 black; 471,900 white)

Arkansas — Integration in 8 of 228 districts; blocked in Little Rock (102,000 black, 316,700 white)

Delaware — Integration in and around Wilmington; segregation in rest of state (11,411 black, 53,904 white)

District of Columbia — Complete integration (73,723 black, 34,758 white)

Florida — None (165,957 black, 594,220 white)

Georgia — None (297,692 black, 644,378 white)

Kentucky — About 50 percent integrated (38,358 black, 551,771 white)

Louisiana — None (225,000 black, 375,000 white)

Maryland — Baltimore area integrated", considerable integration in western counties; areas with large black populations integrating slowly (109,720 black, 397,417 white)

Mississippi — None (268,216 black, 273,722 white)

Missouri — 95 percent of Negro students in some level of integrated schools (67,000 black, 677,500 white)

North Carolina — "Limited integration" in some schools (301,161 black, 724,302 white)

South Carolina — None (243,574 black, 319,670 white)

Tennessee — Some despite opposition (128,164 black, 626,781 white)

Texas — Proceeding slowly but nonviolently (248,532 black, 1,565,568 white...

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