Talk:Green v. County School Board of New Kent County

Lack of Citations
Granted this issue has already been flagged; I'm just noting its severity.

Looking at one series of unsubstantiated assertions: "New Kent County is a rural county in Eastern Virginia. About one-half of its population of some 4,500 residents were black. There was no residential segregation in the county. The school system had only two combined elementary and high schools, one for whites, one for blacks."

The current (2014) composition of NKC is 82% white. Since the trend for nearly all Virginia counties has been toward a smaller proportion of whites, it's extremely unlikely that NKC was 50% black in 1968. Incidentally the article also fails to refer to any dates.

Separately, "115 black students chose to attend mostly white New Kent High School" previous to the captioned case, which indicates that the school was already integrated.

ConradArchguy (talk) 21:03, 15 February 2016 (UTC)