What is More Important, States’ Rights or Individual Rights by Gregory Hilton

According to author Thomas Sowell, the era of segregation in the South existed because of local and state laws which forced private businesses to segregate when most of them really didn’t want to. Defenders of segregation said it should have been allowed to continued because it was a matter of states’ rights. This argument is wrong because an individual’s rights trumps the state or city’s right to restrict them.