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Plessy and Road to Jim Crow - C. Vann Woodward, American Heritage

 In the spring of 1885, Charles Dudley Warner, Mark Twain’s friend, neighbor, and onetime collaborator from Hartford, Connecticut, visited the International Exposition at New Orleans. He...

Did Brown v. Board Ever Really Matter? - Cass Sunstein, New Yorker

On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court announced its decision in the case of Brown v. Board of Education. “Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal,” the Court ruled...

The Bitter Fruits of Forced Desegregation Busing - Hoover Institution

It’s the story South Boston schoolboys love to hear. On March 4, 1776, under cover of darkness, General George Washington ordered his men to position dozens of captured British cannon...

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