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Title: Patterson assesses the mixed legacy of Brown
Review: Patterson's book on the Brown case is thorough assessment on the imact of the 1954 decision on America's schools. Patterson proves that the Supreme Court acting alone, as it did in '54, has limited abilites to change societal behaovior, but all three brances of government acting together, as they did in the late Sixties, can be impactful. Patterson also shows that the federal government was able to end de jure segreagation in the South, but was unsuccessful in ending de facto segregation in the North.
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