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Racial Imbalance Act of 1965 (Massachusetts)
The Racial Imbalance Act of 1965 (1965 Chap. 0641. An Act Providing For The Elimination Of Racial Imbalance In The Public Schools, enacted August 18, 1965) is a piece of legislation passed by the Massachusetts General Court which made the segregation of public schools illegal in Massachusetts. The law, the first of its kind in the United States, stated that any public school in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts whose student body was composed of over 50% of minority races was "racially imbalanced." These racially imbalanced schools were to desegregate according to the law or risk losing their state educational funding. An initial report released in March 1965, "Because it is Right-Educationally," revealed that 55 schools in Massachusetts were racially imbalanced, 44 of which were in the City of Boston. The Boston School Committee was told that the complete integration of the Boston Public Schools needed to happen before September of 1966 without the assurance of either significant financial aid or suburban cooperation in accepting African American students from Boston or the schools would lose funding.