Date: Sun, 04 Feb 96 13:33:46 EST From: Alan Davidson To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Social science data has, for most of this century been taken into consideration in Supreme Court cases -- including employee rights, etc. Brown vs. Board of Education was not an exception -- the only historical issue that needs to be addressed is Coleman's studies were done in the mid-1960's. a bit late for Brown vs. Board of Education.