N.A.A.C.P. Board Stands Behind School Desegregation

By Peter Schmidt

The leadership of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has decided to continue the organization's support for school desegregation, despite mounting doubts about the strategy's effectiveness in improving the education of black children.

The policy position by the association's board of directors is expected to be announced in a report this fall.

School desegregation has "too many positive outcomes in the form of a more open and accepting society for the strategy to be abandoned," according to a...