Keyes v. School District No. 1
United States Supreme Court
413 U.S. 189 (1973)
Relevant factsFree
The Denver school board engaged in nearly a decade of deliberate racial segregation specifically in its Park Hill schools, using divided and optional attendance zones and mobile classrooms; the district court ordered desegregation only in Park Hill, finding Keyes (plaintiff) failed to separately prove de jure segregation for each other area of the city, and refused district-wide relief.
IssueFree
Whether segregation in public schools violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.