The reason why many schools remained segregated until the early 1970s was because children went to schools in their neighborhoods.
People of different races often lived in different neighborhoods with the Whites occupying better residents in the city.
As students often went to schools in their neighborhood, it meant that the people in these schools would mostly be of the race that occupied the neighborhood.
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