Though the Civil Rights Act of 1964 officially ended racial discrimination in public places, relics of the Jim Crow South still haunt modern memory.
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Throughout Thomas’ tenure on the court, he has pushed the Supreme Court to replace Marshall’s vision with one more amenable to the powerful than the powerless.
Though the 1954 Brown v. Board ruling required the integration of public education, US schools remain separated by race.
Digging deeply into the nation’s past can help illuminate the racial setbacks facing the US today.
Brown v. Board didn’t overrule ‘separate-but-equal’ but it had that end. A law scholar explains how there is a lesson there for conservatives on today’s Court looking to end abortion in the US.
‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin,’ the best seller of the 19th century, is not a relic from the past. The complex Uncle Tom figure still has a hold over Black politics.
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Senior Director of Inclusive Culture and Initiatives, University of Colorado Boulder
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FedEx Professor of Law; Author of The Transition: Interpreting Justice from Thurgood Marshall to Clarence Thomas, University of Memphis
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Regents Professor, Arizona State University
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Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Miami University
