School segregation didn't end. Wealthy suburbs learned to hide it

School segregation didn't end. Wealthy suburbs learned to hide it

It has been 72 years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Brown v. Board of Education that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. While there has been some success in integrating schools across the South through enforcement mechanisms such as Title VI of the Civil Rights Act (1964), which gave the federal government the authority to withhold funding from schools that did not comply, progress in much of the countr…