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Complex Justice: The Case of Missouri v. Jenkins

By Joshua M. Dunn

University of North Carolina Press, 2008, $37.50; 226 pages.

If there are any school districts still under tight federal supervision of efforts to desegregate schoolchildren, more than a half century after Brown v. Board of Education, one does not hear of them. With the present posture of the Supreme Court it is unlikely any would be so hampered if an appeal against court supervision were carried that far. But until recently, school districts did operate under such supervision, often for decades after a case had originally been brought, and long after the original conditions that ...

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