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Evaluating the Role of Brown vs. Board of Education in School Equalization, Desegregation, and the Income of African Americans

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This article studied the long-term labor market implications of school resource equalization before Brown and school desegregation after Brown and found that racial disparities in measurable school characteristics had a substantial influence on black males' earnings and educational attainment measured in 1970.
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In this paper we study the long-term labor market implications of school resource equalization before Brown and school desegregation after Brown. For cohorts born in the South in the 1920s and 1930s, we find that racial disparities in measurable school characteristics had a substantial influence on black males' earnings and educational attainment measured in 1970, albeit one that was smaller in the later cohorts. When we examine the income of male workers in 1990, we find that southern-born blacks who finished their schooling just before effective desegregation occurred in the South fared poorly compared to southern-born blacks who followed behind them in school by just a few years.

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The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860–1935

TL;DR: Anderson as discussed by the authors critically reinterprets the history of southern black education from Reconstruction to the Great Depression and offers fresh insights into black commitment to education, the peculiar significance of Tuskegee Institute, and the conflicting goals of various philanthropic groups, among other matters.
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The hollow hope : can courts bring about social change?

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Lifetime Earnings and the Vietnam Era Draft Lottery: Evidence from Social Security Administrative Records

TL;DR: The authors used the randomly assigned risk of induction generated by the Vietnam era draft lottery to construct instrumental variables that are correlated with earnings solely by virtue of their correlation with veteran status and found that the effect of Vietnam era military service on white veterans is equivalent to a loss of two years of civilian labor market experience.
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Collective action and the civil rights movement

Dennis Chong
TL;DR: In this article, the problem of organizing collective action by focusing on the social, psychological, and moral incentives of political activism has been studied, using game theoretic concepts as well as dynamic models, where rational individuals decide to participate in social movements and how these individual decisions translate into collective outcomes.
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