Editing Desegregation busing (section)

=== Las Vegas, Nevada ===
In May 1968, the [[Southern Nevada]] chapter of the [[National Association for the Advancement of Colored People]] (NAACP) filed a lawsuit against the [[Clark County School District]] (CCSD). The NAACP wanted the CCSD to acknowledge publicly, and likewise, act against the ''de facto'' segregation that existed in six elementary schools located on the city's Westside.<ref name="ronan">Matthew, Ronan, ''A History of the Las Vegas School Desegregation Case: Kelly et al. v. Clark County School District'' (Las Vegas: UNLV, 1998), pp. 28, 33, 94.</ref> This area of Las Vegas had traditionally been a [[black neighborhood]]. Therefore, the CCSD did not see the need to desegregate the schools, as the cause of segregation appeared to result from factors outside of its immediate control.

The case initially entered the Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada, but quickly found its way to the [[Nevada Supreme Court]]. According to [[Brown&nbsp;II]], all school desegregation cases had to be heard at the federal level if they reached a state's highest court. As a result, the Las Vegas case, which became known as ''Kelly v. Clark County School District'', was eventually heard by the U.S. [[Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals]]. On May 10, 1972, the Ninth Circuit handed down its decision in favor of the NAACP, which therefore required the CCSD to implement a plan for integration. The CCSD then instituted its ''Sixth Grade Center Plan'', which converted the Westside's six elementary schools into sixth-grade classrooms where nearly all of the school district's sixth graders (black and white alike) would be bused for the 1972–73 school year.<ref name="ronan" />