The Unintended Lessons in Brown v. Board of Education

“This is not to detract from the nobility of the Warren Court’s aspiration in Brown, nor from the contribution to American life of the rule that the state may not coerce or enforce the separation of the races. But it is to say that Brown v. Board of Education, with emphasis on the education part of the title, may be headed for — dread word — irrelevance.”

Citation: Derrick A. Bell Jr., The Unintended Lessons in Brown v. Board of Education, 49 N.Y.L. Sch. L. Rev. (2004-2005).

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