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Austria's pre-war Brown v. Board of Education.

From: Fordham Urban Law Journal  |  Date: 12/1/2004  |  Author: Marcus, Maria L.

INTRODUCTION

On May 19, 1930, a Viennese newspaper published an article under the title, "His Magnificence The Rector: Scandal at the University of Vienna." (1) The author analyzed and attacked the government-sponsored University's new regulations dividing the students into four "nations"--German, non-German (e.g., Jewish), mixed, or "other." These regulations had been presented by the Rector as vehicles for voluntary association of students with common ethnic roots. The article ...

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