Green forced southern rural districts to end racially identifiable schools

Evidence

Green v. County School Board of New Kent County case of 1968 resulted in rural school districts of the South being forced into desegregation plans to terminate racially identifiable schools which are labeled such when a school is more than 20 percentage points different from that of the district. — Marcy Crouch, Magnet Schools and Other Means of…, 5

Categorization

• DEFINE: Gives the operational 20-percentage-point threshold that makes a school ‘racially identifiable.’
• SHARE: The specific 20-point threshold is the kind of detail a policy or desegregation-history friend would want.