Ending state support for segregation changed the form of prejudice

Evidence

Pivotal court decisions, such as Brown v. Board of Education, and sweeping federal legislation, such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1967, as well as many other lower-profile executive and judicial actions at the federal level and legislative actions at the state and local levels, ultimately eliminated official support for the two-caste system. … As profound as these changes were, they did not eliminate all discrimination or de facto segregation. But losing the active support of the political and legal systems ultimately forced changes in the nature of prejudice. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2165

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the vault’s contact-theory claims — institutional desegregation is the precondition that made later prejudice research possible. — connects to: Suppressing a segregationist group simply shifted its followers to successors — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 121; Legal desegregation of primaries drove Georgia segregationists toward open threats of violence by 1946 — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 60