Modern-Day Segregation in Mississippi Schools
Segregation academies have a dark past. Their impact on Mississippi and southern states has yet to be halted, yet the dynamic they have established is seldom acknowledged.
Mississippi schools are desegregated by law. 1954’s famous Brown v. Board of Education ruling did eventually sweep across the famously racist state, though it was a long and painful process. Every school district in the Magnolia State was technically (and legally) desegregated by 1970, yet as parents braced for their children's school life to change, pa…
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