![]() ![]() Documenting his take up and work with segregationists makes up the bulk of my paper. But we know for sure that, to promote his views, he decided to exploit the southern campaign. My paper was clear that we do not know exactly how much Milton Friedman knew of these plans when he wrote the 1955 case for vouchers that spawned today’s “school choice” movement. Board of Education decision in 1954 outlawing segregation in public education, southern political leaders began scheming to evade it and maintain racist education systems. Supreme Court handed down its landmark Brown v. ![]() The title of my INET Working Paper summed up my findings: “ How Milton Friedman Exploited White Supremacy to Privatize Education.” Drawing on the private papers of Friedman and other primary sources, the paper started with the obvious: that as soon as the U.S. Not long ago I published the results of my research on the backstory of Milton Friedman’s discussion of education in his Capitalism and Freedom. ![]()
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