Project Questions

1. What do the various authors consider to be the distinction between de jure and de facto segregation, or between segregation and racial imbalances? How do those differences structure their approach to the issue?
2. On what points do Mondale and Ribicoff agree? On what points do Stennis and Bickel agree?
3. How might Ribicoff respond to Wright Edelman’s criticism?
4. On what points, if any, do all five of these individuals agree?
5. Central Question:How did school desegregation efforts differ in the North and South, and what were the challenges that reformers faced in trying to desegregate American schools after the 1960s?