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A landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the Court unanimously rejected the explicit segregation of American public schools and the principle that “separate but equal” services could be provided to white and African Americans. This decision—and especially the desegregation and backlash it spawned—played a crucial role in the American civil rights movement. However, in The Color of Law, Richard Rothstein shows how local governments managed to segregate schools through other, less explicitly racist tactics, like forcing African Americans into particular ghetto neighborhoods through zoning laws or continuing to maintain the tax-exempt status of segregated private schools.
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Brown v. Board of Education Term Timeline in The Color of Law
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Chapter 7: IRS Support and Compliant Regulators
...years it gave the same advantages to “private whites-only academies” in the South, even after Brown v. Board of Education . In an important 1983 case, the Supreme Court examined whether giving “tax-exempt status to...
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Chapter 8: Local Tactics
...Rothstein explains one last segregation tactic, which was particularly popular in the South before the Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954: local governments zoned school systems so that black students had to live...
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