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Legacy of Jim Crow still affects funding for public schools

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par Derek W. Black, Professor of Law, University of South Carolina
Axton Crolley, Constitutional Law Fellow, University of South Carolina

Nearly 70 years ago – in its 1954 Brown v. Board decision – the Supreme Court framed racial segregation as the cause of educational inequality. It did not, however, challenge the lengths to which states went to ensure the unequal funding of Black schools.

Before Brown, Southern states were using segregation to signify and tangibly reinforce second-class citizenship for Black people in the United…

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