Delaware State Board of Education v. Brenda Evans Alexis I. Du Pont School District v. Brenda Evans

Mr. Justice Rehnquist, with whom Mr. Justice Stewart and Mr. Justice Powell join,

dissenting.

In 1971, respondents in these cases instituted an action seeking the desegregation of the schools in the city of Wilmington, Del. The litigation has now culminated in a countywide remedy more Draconian than any ever approved by this Court. The order provides for the dissolution of the county’s 11 independent school boards, most of which were locally elected. In their place, the District Court “created” a single countywide school system, to be run by court-appointed officials for five years. Within this…