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In Black America is a long-running, nationally-syndicated program dedicated to all facets of the African-American experience. Host John L. Hanson profiles a diverse selection of current and historically significant figures whose stories help illuminate life in Black America.

'Containment' with Professor Michelle Adams: Part 2

Michelle Adams is a law professor at the University of Michigan Law School and author of Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North.
Scott C. Soderberg
Michelle Adams is a law professor at the University of Michigan Law School and author of Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North.

 

On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. presents his second, and final, discussion with Michelle Adams, Law professor at the University of Michigan Law School, and author of ‘Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North.’

 

The Detroit Public schools were segregated not because a law required it, but because the city, like virtually everywhere in this country, operated on a neighborhood school model. And since Detroit’s neighborhoods were highly segregated — 99 percent white in some areas and 95 percent African American in others in 1970 — its schools were, too.

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