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District Court Judge James F. Gordon orders the full desegregation of the Louisville, Kentucky, public schools.
1975 (Jul 30)
United States District Court Judge James F. Gordon ordered the full desegregation of the Louisville, Kentucky, public schools. The judge's order called for the busing of 22,600 pupils to achieve the desegregation. Judge Gordon's ruling climaxed four years of litigation by civil rights groups. The order affected a city-county system of 140,000 pupils, including about 20,000 Blacks. Judge Gordon said that all of the Louisville-Jefferson County schools were to be desegregated and each should have a Black enrollment of at least 12 percent. No school could be more than 40 percent Black. Gordon also warned those "who would resort to public disorder and violence" to oppose the desegregation to "think twice.”
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- • Hornsby, Alton. Chronology of African-American History: Significant Events and People from 1619 to the Present. Detroit: Gale Research, 1995.