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This Article is the second in a three-part series on the 2006 prosecution and defense of the Jena Six in LaSalle Parish, Louisiana. The series, in turn, is part of a larger, ongoing project investigating the role of race, lawyers, and ethics in the American criminal-justice system. The purpose of the project is to understand the race-based, identity-making norms and practices of prosecutors and defenders in order to craft alternative civil-rights and criminal-justice strategies in cases of racially-motivated violence. To that end, this Article revisits the prosecution and defense of the Jena Six in the hope of uncovering the professional norms of practice under de jure and de facto conditions of racial segregation, a set of norms I call Jim Crow legal ethics. Jim Crow ethical norms cond...
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Other works have examined the failure of desegregation, especially in schools and neighborhoods, and the resiliency of white supremacy and Black poverty, while newer scholarship has focused on the movement in the North, collapsing the distinction between de jure and de facto segregation and uncovering the pervasiveness of racial discrimination as a national, not merely a southern, phenomenon. Black organizing tradition, a tradition that scholars often ignore in their emphasis on mobilizing events, those dramatic moments featured in the media.11 This media-driven history has given us good theater but often obscures what each of these books so movingly conveys: that ordinary people are capable ot extraordinary contributions to social change.
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California's Black and Latino leaders should take a hard look at David Bacon's essay, "Black and Brown Together," (American Prospect March 2008). It's about a successful Black-Latino alliance, and the role of leadership, commitment and strategic organizing in dealing with the seemingly intractable BlackBrown issues, especially immigration reform. The deafening silence of California's Black and Latino leadership's on the latter alone, is reprehensible. We decided that the place to start was trying to get a bill passed allowing everyone to get drivers' licenses, regardless of who they were or where they came from," says Jim Evans, the AFL-CIO's state organizer and leader of the Black Caucus in the state legislature. In the fall of 2000, labor, church and civil rights activists formed an ...
... columns; they include racism, segregation (de jure and de facto), ineffective parents and sc...
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... had eliminated the vestiges of prior segregation to the greatest extent practicable. In 2001, the d... on race alone but encompassed "all factors that may contribute to student body diversity," i... dissent elides this distinction between de jure and de facto segregation, casually intimates th...
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... a maze of conflicting formulas and factors for valuing public service corporation property in... have a right to be free of racial segregation in prisons, except for the necessities of prison s... segregative school board actions" is de jure and not de facto , just as if it had been mandat...
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..., holding that the deliberate racial segregation of the Park Hill schools did not prove a like segr... and requiring petitioners to prove de jure segregation for each area that they sought to have...It is more like de facto segregation, with respect to which the rule is tha...
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..., the differences between southern de jure and northern de facto racial oppression were exagg... de jure and northern de facto segregation. This perspective views white supremacy below the ...
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...Brown Triumphs Over Segregation 2. Freeman Cripples Brown 3. Diversity Ignites Hul... overturned nearly six decades of de jure (5) segregation and has become a virtuous emblem o..., but many public schools remain de factos segregated due to pervasive residential segregatio...
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... the vestiges of state-imposed segregation by improving the "desegregative attractiveness" of...g., Freeman, 503 U. S., at 489. The factors that must inform a court's discretion in ordering ... extent practicable the vestiges of prior de jure segregation within the KCMSD: a systemwide reducti...
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... court cases, school tracking, and re-segregation of public schools by using African- American high ...This suggests that curing de jure or ostensibly state- sanctioned segregation does n.... . . Birds Of A Feather: De Jure And De Facto Discrimination. . . . The Brown ruling was in...
