Book contents
- Diversity Judgments
- Diversity Judgments
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Asian Americans
- Part II African Americans
- 3 Brown v. Board of Education (Single-Race Schools)
- 4 Griggs v. Duke Power Co. (Employment Discrimination)
- 5 District of Columbia v. Heller (Right to Keep and Bear Arms)
- Part III Women
- Part IV Latinx
- Part V Native Americans
- Part VI LGBTQ
- Part VII Intersectionality
- Part VIII Outsiders v. Outsiders
- Part IX White Males
- Part X Situational Outsiders
- Index
3 - Brown v. Board of Education (Single-Race Schools)
from Part II - African Americans
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 March 2022
Book contents
- Diversity Judgments
- Diversity Judgments
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Asian Americans
- Part II African Americans
- 3 Brown v. Board of Education (Single-Race Schools)
- 4 Griggs v. Duke Power Co. (Employment Discrimination)
- 5 District of Columbia v. Heller (Right to Keep and Bear Arms)
- Part III Women
- Part IV Latinx
- Part V Native Americans
- Part VI LGBTQ
- Part VII Intersectionality
- Part VIII Outsiders v. Outsiders
- Part IX White Males
- Part X Situational Outsiders
- Index
Summary
Brown v. Board of Education was not the first school desegregation case filed in the United States on behalf of African Americans, or blacks. The first case, Roberts v. City of Boston, involved racial segregation in the Boston public school system. It was filed in state court prior to the Civil War. Massachusetts’s highest court ruled that maintaining segregated schools was lawful despite the equal protection provision in the state constitution.
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- Diversity JudgmentsDemocratizing Judicial Legitimacy, pp. 105 - 132Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022