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Douglas S. Massey is an American sociologist whose research examines international migration, residential segregation, urban poverty, and social inequality. With Nancy A. Denton, he wrote American Apartheid, published in 1993, which analyzed how persistent racial segregation concentrated disadvantag...
Jack Greenberg was an American attorney and legal scholar who played a significant role in the 20th-century civil rights movement. At age 27, he was one of the lawyers who argued the landmark 1954 desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education before the US Supreme Court. He succeeded Thurgood Marsh...
Robert L. Carter (1917–2012) was an American civil rights lawyer who served as a leading attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. He helped develop the legal strategy for *Brown v. Board of Education* (1954) and argued companion cases before the U.S. Supreme Court that resulted in...
This sustained boycott, beginning in 1955, was a masterclass in organized, nonviolent resistance. Initiated following Rosa Parks' arrest, the boycott demonstrated the economic and social power of unified community action. It directly challenged the legal segregation of public transit, building cruci...
Reynolds Farley is an American sociologist and demographer known for research on racial inequality, residential segregation, migration, and long-term population change in the United States. Much of his work has examined how racial patterns persist or change across metropolitan areas, including dispa...
Parable of the Polygons is a 2014 educational browser game created by mathematician Vi Hart and developer Nicky Case. The interactive simulation uses movable squares and triangles to visually model Thomas Schelling's mathematical theories on housing segregation. Players adjust sliders to control the...
The Southern Manifesto was a 1956 statement by U.S. lawmakers opposing Brown v. Board of Education and urging resistance to school desegregation.
