Racism Around Me

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Rather than desegregate · September 1958 - September 1964

Ordered by federal courts to integrate, city and county governments closed the thing instead: schools, swimming pools, parks, and in Atlanta a public street. Closing a public good to everyone was held lawful where sharing it was not.

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