Today in Supreme Court History: September 7, 1958

9/7/1958: The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas denied the Little Rock School Board's petition to suspend its integration program. In Cooper v. Aaron (1958), the Supreme Court ordered the integration of Central High School.

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[Frank Drackman]

How Intergrated is Central HS today? (Like all competent Shysters I never ask questions I don’t already know the answers to)

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[Mr. Bumble]

Once again the post is up twice. Why?

[Michael P]

I saw that in the RSS feed, but now only one post is linked from the main page. Whoever deleted the extra one for today was kind enough to keep both of yesterday's up, presumably because both of those had comments.

(As for why, I assume both days were scheduled to post twice by accident.)

[Frank Drackman]

He’s like Jimmy “Two Times” in Goodfellas, I’m not gonna be the one to ask him, been nice knowing you

[Poxigah146]

Integration is defined as the period of time beginning when the first black family moves in and ending when the last white family moves out.

[Krayt]

They studied "white flight" in Detroit. It turns out it was "anybody with money" flight, as black families hit the road as soon as they could, too.

That didn't prove racism wasn't a factor, much less a factor in poverty of minorities, of course. But it does show the desire to flee overtaxed, high crime hellholes is universal.

Covid showed this too. "Our bloat and burden are the cause of your success, business! Wait, where are you going? You need us!"

[gormadoc]

At least we're decades past the point where schools demand the freedom to racially discriminate.