1974 - School Board Approves Desegregation Plan

July 1974 - The school board approves desegregation plan.

• The Citizens Advisory Group’s desegregation plan is approved. 
• The school board asks Judge James McMillan to replace Dr. John Finger’s difficult integration plan. The judge agrees, but the board can’t come up with a plan he accepts.
• White parents strongly object to sending their children to the formerly all-black West Charlotte High School. In addition, the board does not want to bus children from wealthy white families who might remove their children from the school system. 
• Finally, the grassroots Citizens Advisory Group proposes a plan that solves these problems. It is accepted by the judge.

Listen: Julius Chambers talks about Maggie Ray and the Citizens Advisory Group