DE-FACTO SEGREGATION Even though in the United States, the "Separate but Equal" doctrine of the Jim Crow laws was efficiently abolished after the Supreme Court ruled that it was a direct violation of the Fourteenth Amendment in 1954 (Encyclopædia Britannica), the characters of "A Time to Kill", living in the fictional southern town of Clanton, almost naturally frequent localities where they meet their own race. ... " (Logan: 1-2) In the same paper, the problem is described as being multigenerational, since children of black and white people are likely to attend separ...

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