The history of racism in America can be traced through Supreme Court dockets. Not just in the landmark cases through which the courts intervened to stem it — like Brown v. Board of Education , which ruled against school segregation; Loving v. Virginia , where the court overturned bans on interracial marriage; and Gomillion v. Lightfoot, which determined that districts drawn to disenfranchise Black Americans were unconstitutional — but in the instances where they got it historically,