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Untoward Consequences: The Ironic Legacy Of Keyes V. School District No. 1, Rachel F. Moran
Untoward Consequences: The Ironic Legacy Of Keyes V. School District No. 1, Rachel F. Moran
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The Keyes case began with high hopes that desegregation would lead to educational equity for black and Latino students in the Denver Public Schools. The lawsuit made history by successfully using circumstantial evidence to establish intentional discrimination and bring court-ordered busing to a school system outside the South. In the intervening years, that initial success became laden with irony. Because Denver was a tri-ethnic community of whites, blacks, and Latinos, the litigation revealed the complexities of pursuing reform in a school district not defined by a history of black-white relations.
The courts had to decide whether Latinos would count as …
Social Justice And The Law, Elaine R. Jones
Social Justice And The Law, Elaine R. Jones
University of Richmond Law Review
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The School Desegregation Cases In Retrospect—Some Reflections On Causes And Effects, Yale Kamisar
The School Desegregation Cases In Retrospect—Some Reflections On Causes And Effects, Yale Kamisar
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Recently, when asked to give a lecture on appellate advocacy, Justice Thurgood Marshall reminded his audience what Judge Benjamin Cardozo had once said: "The great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do not turn aside in their course and pass judges by." An outstanding example, he might have added, is Brown v. Board of Education.
In a sense, the significant changes which have occurred in the Black man's status in the last two decades had their beginnings in the rise of numerically, and hence politically, important Black communities in the North. For the importance of civil rights …