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Download full textSchofield, Janet Ward – 1987
The 1954 "Brown v. Board of Education" decision laid the basis for dismantling de jure racial segregation of schools and resulted in a 50 percent reduction in the number of schools in which black students composed 90 to 100 percent of the enrollment between 1968 and 1980. "Brown" represented a significant shift in the national…
Descriptors: Blacks, Court Litigation, Desegregation Effects, Elementary Secondary Education
