@techreport{NBERw2242,
 title = "Accounting for Racial Differences in School Attendance in the American South, 1900:  The Role of Separate-But-Equal",
 author = "Robert A. Margo",
 institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research",
 type = "Working Paper",
 series = "Working Paper Series",
 number = "2242",
 year = "1987",
 month = "May",
 URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w2242",
 abstract = {Everyone knows that public school officials in the American South violated the Supreme Court's separate-but-equal decision. But did the violations matter? Yes, enforcement of separate-but-equal would have narrowed racial differences in school attendance in the early twentieth century South. But separate-but-equal was not enough. Black children still would have attended school less often than white children because black parents were poorer and less literate than white parents.},
}