![]() ![]() There’s also little talk about how perniciously the segregation that flourished in America’s institutions of higher learning persists today. In America, people talk a lot about the battles over desegregation - and the ongoing de facto segregation - in the nation’s public schools.īut in most circles, there’s little attention, if any, given to how the same battles took place in higher education. They were saying that we can just create this law school, and then everyone else is going to have to subsequently sue.”Īnd that, Harris explained, is how segregation in colleges throughout the South crumbled - case by case, with each painstakingly proving the lie inherent in “separate but equal.” “Eventually, it becomes a sort of cascade where the NAACP sues and states are forced to admit Black students,” he said. “This wasn't, they have to admit every Black student or they have to create a law school and a journalism program and a veterinary science program. “The way that the state of Missouri interpreted this was to say that this wasn't a case that was the end all, be all,” Harris explained on Wednesday’s St. ![]() And his case failed to establish a wider precedent, said Atlantic staff writer Adam Harris, who researched the desegregation of higher education for his new book “The State Must Provide: Why America's Colleges Have Always Been Unequal - And How to Set Them Right.” ![]()
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