Essay+4

What is the difference between defacto and dejure segregation? Select one case from each set below and expalin how the Supreme Court has treated each type of discrimination in these cases. What did the Supreme Court SAY about each type of discrimination involved and HOW did the court decide the issue of discrimination in each case?

Set 1: //Milliken v. Bradley (1974) Keyes v. School District No. 1 Denver (1974)//

Set 2: //Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)//

defacto segregation is segregation of the facts. dejure segregation is the segregation by the law.

miliken v bradley: dealed wtih the planned desegregation busing of public school students across district lines among districts in detroit. it concerned the plans to integrate public schools after the ruling in brown v boe -placed limitation on the 1st major case concerning schoool busing; holding that such things could extend across district lines only where there was evidence that multiple districts had purposefully engaged in a policy of segregation.