North Carolina State Board of Education v. Swann

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the use of race in pupil assignments is \one tool absolutely essential to fulfillment of [a school board's] constitutional obligation to eliminate existing dual school systems\
• holding that the use of race in pupil assignments is “one tool absolutely essential to fulfillment of [a school board’s] constitutional obligation to eliminate existing dual school systems”
• holding that the use of race in pupil assignments is “one tool absolutely essential to fulfillment of [a school board’s] constitutional obligation to eliminate existing dual school systems”
• striking down State’s flat prohibition on assignment of pupils on basis of race as impeding an “effective remedy”
• invalidating North Carolina's anti-busing law, and holding that race is a proper consideration in formulating a remedy for past discrimination
• invalidating state law that proscribed student assignmen ts on the basis of race on grounds that \state policy must give way when it ope rates to hinder vindication of federal constitutional guarantees\

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