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Deadline Detroit | Column: Was Integrating Oak Park Schools Positive for Black and White Students?


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May 03, 2021, 9:50 PM
The writer, co-founder of a Jewish news site called Nu? Detroit, revisits a change, begun in the early 1960s, when black students from Royal Oak Township attended junior high and high school in Oak Park, then  predominantly Jewish. His column is republished with permission.
By Mark Jacobs
(Photos: Revoir yearbook)
Robert Brown recently shared memories of Oak Park High School. Robert and I graduated in 1973. Aside from the sentimental stories about high school life, Robert touched on a topic which, even to this day, has not been fully examined: the racial integration of Oak Park Schools.
A half-century on, it’s time for former Oak Park students and staff Black and white to reflect on their experiences to try to make some sense of what those well-intentioned policies accomplished, if anything. ....

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