Henry Marcheschi president of the Pasadena school board and schools Supt. Ramon Cortines in a discussion during one of their meetings in Pasadena on Sept. 17, 1974. The two are frequently at odds over the Pasadena school busing issue. Marcheschi declares that forced integration does not work but Cortines says it has worked well for the children generally. It was 70 years ago this month that the Supreme Court decided in Brown v.
District administrators had stopped drawing elementary, junior high and high school boundaries to intentionally keep the Black kids and the White kids — along with the Latino, and the Asian-American kids — apart. They just pretended it was cool to ignore the segregation by neighborhood. Our junior high, Eliot — named after the guy who invented junior highs, Harvard educator Charles Eliot — was quite well integrated, “naturally.”
But rather than settled law, this turned out to be a matter of dispute. Integrationist school boards, led by the great Al Lowe, a Chinese-American businessman, brought us together. The next election cycle an anti-busing board majority would be elected. The equally great superintendent, Ray Cortines, an integrationist, kept getting hired and fired by different boards.
He’s fine. I’m fine. But we lost. By which I mean, the schools in Pasadena are segregated as ever. I gave a talk to a Muir class last month and on the order of 90% of the students were African American.
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