Posts Tagged ‘the color of law’
How government used the law and racist policies to segregate America — and keep it that way
In the Jim Crow South, the system of segregation was, as we’ve been told for half a century, de jure — established and enforced by law. In the North, racial segregation, we were told, was de facto segregation — a result of private, uncoordinated choices made by individuals and institutions. In 30 Days a Black…
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