I Support School Integration, But ?: Sheff v. O?Neill Ten Years Later And No End In Sight.

Approximately 42 years after the U.S. Supreme Court landmark school desegregation decision, Brown v. Board of Education, the Connecticut Supreme Court issued its own landmark school desegregation decision, Sheff v. O'Neill. More than 10 years later, however, Hartford's schoolchildren are nearly as segregated today as they were when the case was first filed in 1989. This investigation reveals that many whites neither recognize the persistence of racial and ethnic inequality in the schools nor acknowledge the existence of white privilege and advantage that this situation creates. Short of a mandatory desegregation order form the Court, the future of school integration in Connecticut is highly in doubt. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]