After WW2, Cincinnati’s demographics changed in several ways that affected schools: The baby boom resulted in the need for more classrooms, while, at the same time, the African-American population expanded. De facto segregation in the public schools became harder to maintain.
Geoff Sutton has written a series of articles on how the Board of Education responded to these changes and the community’s reaction. We learn about a law suit that made it to the Supreme Court, busing to maintain segregation instead of to end it, and how a 3rd-generation educator called out the continued de facto separation of Black and white kids.
Forced busing to further racial segregation in Cincinnati during the 1950s and 1960s
Segregation in the early 1960s: Moving Classrooms, or Moving Targets?
How school segregation became an issue for the Board of Education in Evanston in the 1960s