“While Brown v. Board declared school segregation itself unconstitutional, other related aspects of segregated schools—particularly the decentralization of school funding—continued unchecked after it. The longer those aspects remained, the more courts accepted them as a neutral aspect of delivering public education.”
Derek W. Black and Axton Crolley
Derek Black is a Professor of Law at the University of South Carolina School of Law. His areas of expertise include education law and policy, constitutional law, civil rights, evidence and torts. Axton Crolley is a Constitutional Law Fellow at the University of South Carolina Constitutional Law Center. He is currently involved with multiple research projects on the legal history of Jim Crow, especially its impact on education.