A CLERK' S-EYE VIEW OF KEYES V. SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 1

After describing the political, intellectual, and doctrinal background to Keyes v. School District No. I, this Keynote Address narrates some aspects of the way the deliberations in Keyes proceeded inside the Court. For the Justices, Keyes was less a case about the standard for determining when a Northern school board engaged in de jure segregation than it was a case about using busing to remedy segregation anywhere in the country. It suggests that when understood against its background, Keyes played an important role in first expanding, and then-because of the reaction to it-narrowing the scope of desegregation efforts North and South.