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On Brown V. Board Of Education's 50th Anniversary: To Integrate Or Separate Is Not The Question
On Brown V. Board Of Education's 50th Anniversary: To Integrate Or Separate Is Not The Question
Thomas Kleven
By ending official apartheid, Brown represented a great victory in the struggle for racial justice in the United States. Following more than a decade of inaction as a result of its “all deliberate speed” formulation, and in response to the then prevailing sentiment among the proponents of Brown, the Supreme Court began to push for the integration of school districts that engaged in segregation by law or practice. This integrationist push lasted from the late 1960s to the late 1970s. Beginning in the mid-1970s the Court began to limit the remedies for segregation by law or practice, and beginning in …
On The Freedom To Associate Or Not To Associate With Others
On The Freedom To Associate Or Not To Associate With Others
Thomas Kleven
This article discusses the freedom to associate or not to associate with others. Associational issues are pervasive in the law, and arise on both an individual and a societal level. Within societies one party may want to have an association with another who doesn’t want the association, or parties may want to have an association that others find objectionable or may want not to have an association that others favor. In all of these situations society as a whole must decide whether to empower one party to impose an unwanted relationship on others, and whether to prohibit associations that parties …