Mississippi district will desegregate schools after half-century fight
 

Mississippi district will desegregate schools after half-century fight
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Cleveland, Mississippi schools have been segregated for decades, but the area's predominantly black and predominantly white schools will **w merge after a half-century-long legal battle ended on Monday, with a federal court ruling that said the **tion of "separate but equal" had to go.

“Six decades after the Supreme Court in*Brown v. Board of Education*declared that ‘separate but equal has ** place’ in public schools, this decision serves as a reminder to districts that delaying desegregation obligations is both unacceptable and unconstitutional,” Vanita Gupta, head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, said in an online statement.* Read more...


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