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Lisa Neidert; Reynolds Farley; Jeffrey Morenoff – RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2025
This article traces the history of census undercount and its importance to civil rights. The Constitution mandates a census and calls for Congress to use the results to apportion seats in Congress and the Electoral College. A substantial undercount in the census will misallocate congressional and electoral college votes. More recently,…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Civil Rights, Legislators, Disproportionate Representation
Reutter, E. Edmund, Jr. – 1974
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June 1972 on a case involving changes in boundaries of a county school district in Virginia which had been operated as a dual school system. Two weeks after a federal district Court ordered a school-pairing plan, the Emporia City Council announced that city's intention to operate an independent school system. The…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Methods, Desegregation Plans