Before Bostock: The Accidental LGBTQ Precedent of Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins by Jason Pierceson

Abstract

receiving the justice that they deserved. Nonetheless, almost fifty years after the court’s state-wide ruling, more than forty of Alabama’s school districts have failed to complete integration vigorously enough to remove them from court supervision. Moreover, the forces of racism have repeatedly overwhelmed the justice that Lee was supposed to deliver. This situation is nowhere more clearly evident than in Macon County, where decades of white flight have left the public schools almost as segregated as they were in 1963, when those sixteen children launched a revolution that is still damningly far from fruition.