The Mumford Center has created a new data webpage on school segregation (1968-2000), and legal cases related to desegregation (since 1950). We provide information on most school districts in the country, including racial/ethnic composition of elementary enrollment since 1968 and segregation measures. If there has been a legal case related to school segregation, we list the case, provide a capsule summary, and offer a link to a description of the case from Westlaw. This is the first web-based inventory of school segregation litigation. http://www.albany.edu/mumford/brown

A summary report on the impact of the Brown decision is also available on the website. Among other things it shows that within-district segregation was cut almost in half by 1990 as a national average, more in the South than elsewhere, and equally in districts that had court orders as in those that did not. A direct link to the report is at http://mumford.cas.albany.edu/schoolsegregation/reports/brown05.htm