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Elimination of Racial Segregation in Interstate Transportation
On the heels of Brown v. Board of Education, this memo advised that there was “ample reason to believe that the legal basis for segregation in transportation is crumbling” and encouraged the attorney general to “press with renewed vigor for the elimination of the doctrine,” including by intervening in two then-ongoing cases.
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