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Date: 1992United States v. Fordice  

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  • In 1992, the U.S. Supreme Court decided United States v. Fordice, a case involving discrimination on the basis of race in the state university system of Mississippi. Justice Byron White delivered the opinion of the Court, which found that a state has an affirmative duty to dismantle its segregated system even though the segregation was by choice rather than by law. [Source: Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society; United States v. Fordice]

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  • Date: 1992

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-P09F87PX-F

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