TY  - JOUR
AU  - Margo,Robert A.
TI  - Segregated Schools and the Mobility Hypothesis: A Model of Local Government Discrimination
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Historical Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 17
PY  - 1990
Y2  - October 1990
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/h0017
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/h0017.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Robert A. Margo
Department of Economics
Boston University
270 Bay State Road
Boston, MA 02215
Tel: 617/353-6819
Fax: 617/343-8495
E-Mail: margora@bu.edu
AB  - Around the turn of the century, Southern blacks lost the right to vote and discrimination against them by local government officials intensified. This paper argues that, in the case of the de jure segregated public schools attended by black children, the ability of Southern blacks to ''vote with their feet" placed limits on local government discrimination.
ER  -