The Racial Imbalance of New Haven Schools: 1963-1974
By: Dominique Dickenson Throughout the mid 1960’s, around the time period of The Civil Rights Movement , New Haven and its public schools were experiencing a movement of their own. For years before the 1960’s, there was segregation in New Haven schools on both a primary and secondary. Students on the basis of race were segregated and African Americans were isolated away from the whites as each color attended their own schools. Discrimination wasn’t just obvious on a secondary level of school, but was also noticeable at higher levels of education. Though there were no laws put in place at Universities and Colleges that prohibited African Americans from attending the predominantly white universities, blacks were still unfairly represented at these institutions. After the Brown v.s Board of Education decision where the Supreme Court ruled that segregated schools was unconstitutional it became unlawful to prohibit a black student from attending any school they wanted to. By follow...