<P> The result of that lawsuit was what came to be known as the "Nashville Plan", an attempt to integrate the public schools of Nashville (and later all of Davidson County when the district was consolidated in 1963). The plan, beginning in 1957, involved the gradual integration of schools by working up through the grades each year starting in the fall of 1957 with first graders . Very few black children who had been zoned for white schools showed up at their assigned campus on the first day of school, and those who did met with angry mobs outside several city elementary schools . No white children assigned to black schools showed up to their assigned campuses . </P> <P> After a decade of this gradual integration strategy, it became evident that the schools still lacked full integration . Many argued that Housing Segregation was the true culprit in the matter . In 1970 the Kelley case was reintroduced to the courts . Ruling on the case was Judge Leland Clure Morton, who, after seeking advice from consultants from the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, decided the following year that to correct the problem, forced busing of the children was to be mandated, among the many parts to a new plan that was finally decided on . This was a similar plan to that enacted in Charlotte - Mecklenburg Schools in Charlotte, North Carolina, the same year . </P> <P> What followed were mixed emotions from both the black and white communities . Many whites did not want their children to share schools with black children, arguing that it would decrease the quality of their education . While a triumph for some, many blacks believed that the new plan would enforce the closure of neighborhood schools such as Pearl High School, which brought the community together . Parents from both sides did not like the plan because they had no control over where their children were going to be sent to school, a problem that many other cities had during the 1970s when busing was mandated across the country . Despite the judge's decision and the subsequent implementation of the new busing plan, the city stood divided . </P> <P> As in many other cities across the country at this time, many white citizens took action against the desegregation laws . Organized protests against the busing plan began before the order was even official, led by future mayoral candidate Casey Jenkins . While some protested, many other white parents began pulling their children out of the public schools and enrolling them in the numerous private schools that began to spring up almost overnight in Nashville in the 1960s and 1970s . Many of these schools continued to be segregated through the 1970s . Other white parents moved outside of the city limits and eventually outside the Davidson County line so as not to be part of the Metropolitan District and thus not part of the busing plan . </P>

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