Kairys, David2023-05-232023-05-232006-07-012006-07-27https://repository.upenn.edu/handle/20.500.14332/42497This essay, based on a lecture sponsored by the Penn Institute for Urban Research, presents a brief history of the Supreme Court on race issues, from the Marshall Court to the present, beginning by focusing on Brown v. Board of Education and the development in the mid-1970s of a narrow purposeful discrimination rule that has made it near impossible for minority claims of discrimination to succeed.Race and Social WelfarePresentation