Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg County Board of Education Swann
v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg County Board of Education, case decided
in 1971 by the U.S. Supreme Court. The Court held that the
constitutional mandate (see Brown v. Board of Education of
Topeka, Kans.) to desegregate public schools did not require all
schools in a district to reflect the district's racial
composition, but that the existence of all-white or all-black
schools must be shown not to result from segregation policies.
The Court added that because bus transportation had
traditionally been employed by school systems, busing could be
used in efforts to correct racial imbalances. The Columbia
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