Tax Exemptions for Racially Discriminatory Religious Schools

Date

1982

Citation

Douglas Laycock, Tax Exemptions for Racially Discriminatory Religious Schools, 60 Texas Law Review, 259–277 (1982).

UVA Law Faculty Affiliations

Douglas Laycock

Constitutional Law and Legal History

Center for the First Amendment

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