Can you guess what happened when the NAACP successfully pushed to reduce inequities in black-white teacher salaries in the 1930s?

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These areas saw reductions in racial inequality in school enrollment and grade progression as a direct result.

https://nber.org/papers/w30631

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Legal Activism, State Policy, and Racial Inequality in Teacher Salaries and Educational Attainment in the Mid-Century American South

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@johnholbein Hey John! So happy to see you on this elephant site! Thank you once again for boosting my JMP on the bird site back in 2018 🤓
@maximananyev you bet! good to see you too!
@johnholbein my grandmother was one of the teachers involved in these lawsuits, later though, early 1950s Wilmington, NC. Very cool to see this data