Yes. Several Southern states established school voucher programs to evade integration in the wake of Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 Supreme Court ruling that deemed race-based segregation in public schools unconstitutional.

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Yes. Several Southern states established school voucher programs to evade integration in the wake of Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 Supreme Court ruling that deemed race-based segregation in public schools unconstitutional.