Notes

1 United States, Commission on Civil Rights, A Long Day's Journey into Light: School Desegregation in Prince George's County (Washington, DC: GPO, 1986) 193-194.

2 Commission on Civil Rights 41.

3 "A Brief Historie and Related Interesting Facts About Early Prince George's County, Maryland" (Courthouse, Upper Marlboro, Maryland, April 23, 1967) 3. Quoted from Commission on Civil Rights 41-42.

4 Commission on Civil Rights 43.

5 Commission on Civil Rights 44.

6 Commission on Civil Rights 37.

7 Commission on Civil Rights 47.

8 Gary Orfield, Must We Bus?: Segregated Schools and National Policy (Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1978) 84.

9 Commission on Civil Rights 72.

10 Commission on Civil Rights 73-74.

11 The Concise Columbia Encyclopedia (Columbia University Press, 1995), Microsoft Bookshelf '95, CD-ROM (Microsoft Corporation, 1995) Quoted from Brown II, 349 U.S. 294 (1955).

12 Commission on Civil Rights 87.

13 Commission on Civil Rights 90-91.

14 Richard E. Weaver, "The Resilience of School Desegregation in a Decade of Political Opposition to Busing: A Case Study of Prince George's County, Maryland, 1973-1980," diss., University of Maryland, 1985, 53-54.

15 Commission on Civil Rights 93-95.

16 Commission on Civil Rights 146-147.

17 Weaver 54-55.

18 Weaver 27.

19 Commission on Civil Rights 165.

20 Weaver 57.

21 Commission on Civil Rights 176.

22 Weaver 58.

23 Commission on Civil Rights 191. Quoted from Weaver 59.

24 Letter from Lloyd R. Henderson, OCR, to Superintendent Schmidt, January 30, 1968, Ruth Wolf Collection, McKeldin Library, University of Maryland. Quoted from Weaver 61.

25 Commission on Civil Rights 195.

26 Commission on Civil Rights 208.

27 Weaver 84.

28 Weaver 22.

29 NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, It's Not the Distance, "It's the Niggers" (New York: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Division of Legal Information and Community Service, 1972) 3.

30 "`Let's make it work,'" Newsweek 12 Feb. 1973: 71.

31 "`Let's make it work.'"

32 Commission on Civil Rights 375-376.

33 Edward Glynn, "`A Matter of Law,'" America 17 Feb. 1973: 129.

34 "`Let's make it work.'"

35 Linda Charlton, "Maryland County Begins School Desegregation Plan," New York Times 30 Jan. 1973: 13, New York Times School Microfilm Collection (1982).

36 Commission on Civil Rights 374.

37 "Maryland County Begins School Desegregation Plan."

38 "`Let's make it work.'"

39 Commission on Civil Rights 380, 390.

40 Commission on Civil Rights 404.