Gunnar Myrdal’s An American Dilemma, a devastating indictment of segregation, was published in 1944. Myrdal revealed the terrible fiction of separate-but-equal facilities: The Southern states were spending twice as much to educate white children as they were black children and four times as much for school facilities; white teacher salaries were 30 percent higher; and there was virtually no transportation for black children to and from school.
