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Pasadena

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

William Cohen*
Affiliation:
University of California, Los Angeles
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Pasadena, California, located roughly ten miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles, had a public school enrollment of slightly more than 31,000 during the 1964–65 school year. The racial distribution was 68.9% Caucasian, 21.1% Negro, and 9.9% Mexican-American and Japanese. The surrounding communities have essentially no minority group population and it is expected that migration of minority group members will continue to be concentrated in Pasadena. The residentially segregated pattern of the typical Northern city is conspicuous in Pasadena. The all-Negro neighborhood is present as is the totally white neighborhood. The intermediate areas contain various degrees of segregation.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © 1967 by the Law and Society Association

Footnotes

Editors' Note: This is a condensation, prepared by the staff of the Law & Society Review, of Professor Cohen's larger study (“Racial Imbalance in the Pasadena Public Schools,” 49 pp.) conducted for the United States Office of Education in 1965–66.

References

1. Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 438 (1954).

2. 59 Cal. 2d 978–82 (1963).