Without Deliberate Speed: The Effects of Southern Out-Migration on School Desegregation

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Brief Overview

I study how the demographic changes in a county following the Great Migration affected the timing and extent to which school districts desegregated. Places that experienced an increase in their share Black desegregated later and at lower levels.

Author

• Paige Montrose, University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus