Chapter 29 Homework (Section 1 worksheet C)

1. West Virginia, Missouri, Delaware, Maryland, Arkansas and Texas all started desegregating schools the year of the Brown v. Board decision.

2. Desegregation didn't start until the 1960s in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina.

3. Generally, schools that started desegregation earlier were more integrated by 1964; for example, in Kentucky and Virginia the schools had more than 60% of African American students attending integrated schoolsby 1964, whereas Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina all had less than 1% of African American students in integrated schools. The "glaring exception" to that trend is Arkansas, which started integration in 1954 when the Brown decision was passed but had less than 1% of African American students in desegregated schools.

4. 30 to 60% of African American students were in integrated schools by 1964 in Maryland, Delaware, Oklahoma and Missouri.

5. The number of African American students attending public schools was less than the region's average (11%) in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Florida, North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.

6. Of the states mentioned in question 5, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina were the furthest below the average (all were less than 1% integrated).

7. All of these states are in the deep South, were civil rights met the most resistance. It makes sense that this would be where the schools were the least integrated. People from those regions were generally vehemently against desegregation.