Register of the The Integration Project : The Dorothy Doyle Collection,
1967-1978, n.d.
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Register of the The Integration Project : The Dorothy Doyle Collection,
1967-1978, n.d.
Collection number: MSS 020
Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research
Los Angeles, California
Contact Information:
- Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research
- 6120 S. Vermont Avenue
- Los Angeles, California 90044
- Phone: (323) 759-6063
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- Email: archives@socallib.org
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- Processed by:
- Patricia Martinez
- Date Completed:
- June 1996
- Encoded by:
- Xiuzhi Zhou
© 1999 Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: The Integration Project : The Dorothy Doyle Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1967-1978, n.d.
Collection number: MSS 020
Creator:
Doyle, Dorothy
Extent: 7 boxes
Repository:
Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], The Integration Project : The Dorothy Doyle Collection, Southern California Library for Social Studies
and Research, Los Angeles.
Historical Sketch
Civil Rights struggles after World War II created the climate for the landmark 1954 United States Supreme Court
Brown
v. Board of Education decision that overturned nineteenth-century law. The court ruled that educational facilities "which separate Blacks from
whites are inherently unequal." As a result, in 1963, a Black student in Los Angeles by the name of Mary Crawford, sued the
Los Angeles School Board for segregating and denying her equal opportunity under this new law. Years of litigation followed
as several L.A. boards of education appealed this high court decision.
In 1970, Judge Alfred Gitelson ordered the board to create a plan for integration. When the board came up with a scheme based
entirely on voluntary busing, the Judge said it was "designed to show extremely high cost, create disruption, and was designed
to fail- not a plan at all." Finally in 1976, the California Supreme Court ordered the board to desegregate, and a new Judge,
Paul Egly, ordered that a new plan be submitted to him by December 1976.
Over that summer of 1976, about 40 teachers, parents, and community workers met informally in a crowded unpainted room in
a building in central L.A. Appointed by the Los Angeles Board of Education to study the district and recommend a plan for
desegregation, the group not only monitored the activities of the Citizen's Advisory Committee, but it also scheduled meetings
with the public to provide for airing of opinions and grievances. Knowing that its suggestions could be readily rejected,
the committee became cautious and tried not to advise anything too sweeping. Nevertheless, while it did produce a method and
schedule whereby some schools could be desegregated, the board promptly put the committee's proposals aside and dismissed
them.
Two methods of avoiding court ordered desegregation emerged right from the start: first, an integrated school was defined
as one where as much as 80% of one race attended. Second, special permits (PWT) allowed students to travel voluntarily on
school buses in order to integrate schools. Close to twenty-five million dollars would be spent on a nonplan that would place
the weight for change on the students.
The study group took the name of the
Integration Project and began attending public meetings, writing and circulating informational bulletins, and calling the attention of teachers
and parents' to the board's failure to obey the law. The group's plan brought together the major ethnic groups in the city:
Asian, Black, Latino, and white. They included suggestions for staff development, use of federal and state funds for human
relations, training and updating of facilities and material. Most importantly, though, the group was able to clearly establish
the need for multi-cultural and bilingual education.
The school board's position on integration emerged quite clearly: it was bad for education and it would create violence and
a situation where minority students would not be able to compete and thereby develop inferiority complexes. So, after weeks
of hearings and millions of dollars in expenses, Judge Egly rejected the Integration Project's plan for desegregation. He
then appointed a monitor to oversee the creation of a new board plan who would desegregate the district.
In June, Robert Doctor, a moderate pro-integrationist, lost his seat to Bobbi Fieldler, an ardent anti-integrationist.
Over the next year, 1977-1978, with the exception of the Hispanic Urban Center, an independent community group, Black and
Hispanic leaders seemed opposed to desegregation, spoke against busing, or subtly supported segregation by supporting the
court case decision as though it were just a squabble between white politicians and thus of no concern to them. Instead, they
now called for "quality education and community decision-making."
Judge Egly gave tentative approval to a new board plan called Concept L that would raise the number of traveling students
to 20,000, and exclude grades K-3 and 9-12 and the most racially isolated areas of the city- South Central and East Los Angeles.
In October 1979, a new round of hearings began to expand Concept L. Integration Project activists continued to print informational
bulletins with updates on court hearings. They warned that the imposition of "separate but equal" was becoming fixed in the
budget under an item entitled "Racially Isolated Minority Schools" (RIMS). Under this designation, money appropriated for
desegregation was instead being used to support segregation. When it became clear that Judge Egly would approve a RIMS package
to upgrade segregated schools, the Integration Project decided it could not ignore its existence. Suggestions were written
for "How To Improve Remaining Racially Isolated Schools."
Finally, in 1981 the case came to a close. The State Supreme Court refused to hear the merits of the constitutional amendment
as it applied to the Los Angeles
Crawford v. Board of Education case. Segregationists had brought an end to 18 years of litigation without desegregating one single minority school.
Scope and Content
The Integration Papers (1970's) is an alphabetical subject collection. The series contains a wide range of material pertinent
to The Project, including legal papers, newspaper articles, minutes of meetings, reports, and publications. This large archive
documents the segregation of Los Angeles schools, the litigation around that issue, and community organizing about education.
The best place to begin research for this collection is in the clipping files. One can obtain the dates and major details
of events. The newspaper articles document a wide range of issues- from court decisions to the controversial issue of busing.
The material pertinent to this issue is a highlight of this collection.
Meeting notes and minutes provide great insight to the Project's overall organization, ideas, and goals. Members voiced their
opinions and tasks were undertaken. A strong leadership and high level of will are proven to have existed within the group.
The political and social issues that influenced the Project's decisions can be best understood through the papers of organizations
such as BARTOC, the Coalition For Bilingual Integrated Quality Education (CBIQE), and the Community Relations Conference of
Southern California (CRCSC).
Another highlight to this collection is the court-related documents from
Crawford vs. Board of
Education. Appeals, briefings, and proceedings richen the collection and facilitate the understanding of the case.
This large archive about school desegregation in Los Angeles was donated by Jackie Goldberg, Sharon Stricker, and Dorothy
Doyle, three key leaders of the Project. Dorothy, a teacher and writer, was for many years on the SCL Board. Sharon is an
accomplished writer, teacher, and feminist activist. Jackie, who went on to become president of the school board, is now on
the Los Angeles City Council.
Related Collections
Title: The Integration Project : The Jackie Goldberg And Sharon Stricker Collection, 1980-1985, n.d.
Title: Shevy Wallace Healey Papers (CIO Los Angeles Organizing), 1938-1962.
Title: Standard Coil Organizing Campaign Collection (UE vs. IUE-CIO), 1949-1954, n.d..
Title: Julius Mel Reich Labor Archives Collection.
Box 1, Folder 2
American Civil Liberties Union
Box 1, Folder 3
American Civil Liberties Union, John & La Ree Caughey
Box 1, Folder 4
Analysis of Factors: Summaries, Index
Box 1, Folder 5
Analysis of Factors: Summaries, Racial & Ethnic Composition (A)
Box 1, Folder 6
Analysis of Factors: Summaries, Educational Quality (B)
Box 1, Folder 7
Analysis of Factors: Summaries, Community Acceptance (C)
Box 1, Folder 8
Analysis of Factors: Summaries, Destablization Effects (E)
Box 1, Folder 9
Anti-Defamation League of B'Nai B'Rith
Box 1, Folder 13-14
Bilingual & Bicultural Education
Box 1, Folder 18-19
California Federation of Teachers
Box 1, Folder 20
California School Improvement Program
Box 1, Folder 21
California School Improvement Program, AB65
Box 1, Folder 22
California School Improvement Program, Applications
Box 1, Folder 23
California Task Force For Integrated Education
Box 1, Folder 24
California Teachers Association
Box 1, Folder 28
Certificate of Merit, 1978
Box 1, Folder 29
The Chicano Education Project,
Un Nuevo Dia
Box 1, Folder 31
Chronology of Integration Efforts
Box 1, Folder 32
Citizen Action In Education
Box 2, Folder 9
Coalition Against Police Abuse (CAPA)
Box 2, Folder 10
Coalition for Bilingual Integrated Quality Education (CBIQE)
Box 2, Folder 11
Coalition for Bilingual Integrated Quality Education (CBIQE), Literature
Box 2, Folder 13
Committees Against Racism
Box 2, Folder 14
Committee United for Equal and Quality Education
Box 2, Folder 17
Community Relations Conference of Southern California
Box 2, Folder 19
Component I, Staff Development Training Program for District Personnel
Box 2, Folder 20
Component II, Student-To-Student In-Service
Box 2, Folder 21
Component III, Specialized Learning Centers
Box 2, Folder 22
Component IV, Communication
Box 2, Folder 23
Component V, Community Organization Network
Box 2, Folder 24
Component VI, PWT Expansion
Box 2, Folder 25
Component VII, PIE Type Activities
Box 2, Folder 26
Component VIII, Geographic Techniques
Box 2, Folder 27
Component IX, Currently Integrated Schools
Box 2, Folder 28
Component X, Schools of Choice
Box 2, Folder 29
Correspondence, Miscellaneous
Box 2, Folder 30-31
Council For Peace And Equality in Education (CPEE)
Box 2, Folder 32
Court Report, A Summary of Student Integration Hearings
Box 2, Folder 33-35
Crawford vs. Board of Education
Box 3, Folder 1-3
Crawford vs. Board of Education
Box 3, Folder 4
Crawford vs. Board of Education, The Gitelson Decision
Box 3, Folder 5
Crenshaw High School Faculty Senate, Jeffrey P. Horton
Box 3, Folder 8
Desegregation, Staff Report
Box 3, Folder 10
Education Commission of the States
Box 3, Folder 19
A History of Integration: The Happenings At The Los Angeles Board of Education
Box 3, Folder 21
Integrated Quality Education in Los Angeles
Box 3, Folder 22
Integration Information Group
Box 3, Folder 24
The Integration Project, Newsletter
Box 3, Folder 27
Lists, Addresses and Phone Numbers
Box 3, Folder 28
Los Angeles City Board of Education
Box 3, Folder 29
Los Angeles City Board of Education, Proposals and Press Statements
Box 3, Folder 30
Los Angeles City Schools, Enrollment and Location
Box 3, Folder 31
Los Angeles City Schools, Leaflets and Pamphlets
Box 3, Folder 32
Los Angeles County Commission on Human Desegregation
Box 3, Folder 33-36
Los Angeles Unified School District, Citizen's Advisory Committee on Student Integration (CACSI)
Box 4, Folder 1
Los Angeles Unified School District, Plan Concepts, 1977
Box 4, Folder 2
Los Angeles Unified School District, Proposal for Analyzing Alternate Integration Strategies
Box 4, Folder 3
Los Angeles Unified School District, School Desegregation Staff Report
Box 4, Folder 4
Los Angeles Unified School District, Staff Development Branch
Box 4, Folder 6-8
Metropolitan School Planning
Box 4, Folder 13
Nava, Julian, LAUSD Board of Education President
Box 5, Folder 2
People United to Save Humanity (PUSH)
Box 5, Folder 3
Preliminary Integration Plans, 1977
Box 5, Folder 9-10
Publications, Miscellaneous
Box 5, Folder 11
Racial & Ethnic Enrollment
Box 5, Folder 12
Racial & Ethnic Segregation
Box 5, Folder 13-14
Racially Isolated Minority Schools (RIMS)
Box 5, Folder 17
San Fernando Valley Fair Housing Council, Newsletter
Box 5, Folder 18
School Integration Advocacy Network
Box 5, Folder 19
School Observer, 1976, 1977
Box 5, Folder 20
School System Summary Reports, 1978
Box 5, Folder 25
Summary of Integration Proposals, 1967, 1977
Box 5, Folder 27
Together for Integrated Education (TIE)
Box 5, Folder 31-32
Transportation, Permits With Transportation (PWT)
Box 5, Folder 34
United Teachers, Los Angeles (UTLA)
Box 5, Folder 36
Westside Integration Network
Box 5, Box 7
Miscellaneous Publications
