Connecticut school segregation case

Jet, July 29, 1996

CONNECTICUT SCHOOE SEGREGATION CASE: High school senior Milo Sheff (c), the lead plaintiff in the Sheff vs. Wade school segregation case, joined by his mother Elizabeth Horton Sheff and attorney John Brittain, speaks at a news conference at Milner School in Hartford, CT, after the state's Supreme Court ruled by a vote of 4-3 that racial segregation in Hartford's public schools is unconstitutional.

It called on the General Assembly to remedy the disparity between suburban schools and those of the city, which primarily serve Blacks and Hispanics. The suit, originally filed in 1989, asked the court to require a merger of Hartford city schools, which have a 95% minority enrollment, and suburban town schools, which are of less than 10% minority.