Racial Segregation Cases

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-racial segregation in schools was made unconstitutional in 1954 when the US Supreme Court held unanimously in Brown v. Board of Education that racially segregated schools are "inherently unequal."

- 95% of the participants in the survey thought of a black person when they were told to imagine a drug user. However, just 15% of the drug users are black. Whites are just as likely to use drugs than blacks.

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