In an unexpected and disturbing move, five members of the U.S. Supreme Court have transformed an important but narrow case involving racial harassment into a re-evaluation of fundamental principles… ...

Judging from the civil rights community`s negative reaction to the Supreme Court`s decision in Patterson v. ... had unanimously reversed its established civil rights precedent of Runyon v. McCrary.

She said the majority “studiously avoids” a 1976 Supreme Court decision, Runyon v. McCrary, in which the court rejected arguments by several private schools in Virginia that they had a First ...

McCrary. According to the AHS website, "the US Supreme Court outlawed racially segregated public schools in 1954, but whites-only private schools Community Matters is a biweekly opinion column.