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Today's Segregated Schools - UNC Press Blog
A federal judge Tuesday ordered a rural county in southwestern Mississippi to stop segregating its schools by grouping African American students into all-black classrooms and allowing white students to transfer to the county's only majority-white school, the U.S. Justice Department announced. (read the whole story here) When I saw the story yesterday headlined "Miss. county schools ordered to comply with desegregation order," my first thought was, "Really? In 2010?" How could it have taken that long to enforce the 1964 Civil Rights Act? Well, it didn't. What happened between then and now has happened in...
Ellen C. Bush