TY  - JOUR
AU  - Margo,Robert A.
TI  - Accounting for Racial Differences in School Attendance in the American South, 1900:  The Role of Separate-But-Equal
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 2242
PY  - 1987
Y2  - May 1987
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w2242
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w2242.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  - 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.
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