Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Keyes v. School District No. 1, Denver Colorado (1973)

This was one of the first cases dealing with school segregation outside of the South. In this case, the lower courts found that the Denver School District deliberately engaged in discrimination in the Park Hill section of the district by building schools in certain areas, gerrymandering student attendance zones, and by the excessive use of mobile classroom units, among other things. The petitioners in the case not only wanted the Park Hill section of the city to be desegregated, but wanted the courts to order desegregation of all segregated schools in the city of Denver, particularly the heavily segregated schools in the core city area, even though there was no evidence of a deliberate attempt to segregate students in all-black schools there.

If you were a Supreme Court justice, would you order the entire district desegregated, or just the Park Hill area?
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6 comments:

  1. JacobFebruary 17, 2015 at 3:12 PM

    I would order the tire area to desegregate.

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  2. AnonymousFebruary 17, 2015 at 3:13 PM

    If i was a Surpreme Court justice i would order the entire district desegregated because is it was happening in Park Hill it would probably also be happening in other districts.

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  3. AceFebruary 17, 2015 at 3:13 PM

    Just the Park Hill area because they had been found to deliberately engaging in discrimination and the other areas had not been found in doing so.

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  4. AnonymousFebruary 17, 2015 at 3:14 PM

    The entire district to desegregate.

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  5. BryceFebruary 17, 2015 at 3:14 PM

    I would order the whole district to desegrated.

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  6. AnonymousFebruary 17, 2015 at 3:14 PM

    I think that they should be desegregated.

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