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The Supreme Court decision that kept suburban schools segregated

  • Written by Jon Hale, Associate Professor of Education, University of South Carolina
A 1974 Supreme Court decision found that school segregation was allowable if it wasn't being done on purpose.AP

America recently marked the 65-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education – a landmark case intended to abolish the “separate-but-equal” doctrine of racial segregation in...

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