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De Facto Segregation Example

In effort to desegregate the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system, the court examined various types of desegregation plans proposed by the school system.  Situations in which racial segregation occured despite facially neutral language in the plan were considered "de facto segregation." 

 
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Bd. of Ed., 402 U.S. 1 (1971)