The Supreme Court supported the use of a districtwide urban desegregation plan at a time when many observers thought the Court was unwilling to uphold the use of busing to correct de facto school segregation.
By 1979 the Supreme Court appeared no longer willing to impose large, complicated school desegregation plans involving busing on urban districts as the result of Milliken v. Bradley
Brown v. Board of Education
Desegregation
Milliken v. Bradley
Pasadena Board of Education v. Spangler
School integration and busing
Segregation, de facto
Segregation, de jure
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education