Federal courts have issued desegregation orders for 32 school districts in Mississippi, the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division says.
LEXINGTON, Miss. — Federal courts have issued desegregation orders for 32 school districts in Mississippi, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division’s assistant attorney general said Thursday.
“In our ongoing efforts to fulfill the promise of Brown vs. Board of Education, we currently have 32 open cases with school districts here in Mississippi,” Clarke said. “And in each of those cases, we are working to ensure that these districts comply with desegregation orders from courts.” Mississippi has the highest percentage of Black residents of any state. It has been home, as have other states, to legal fights over desegregation. In 2017, a Mississippi Delta school districttwo high schools after nearly 50 years of litigation in which the district sought to maintain historically Black and white schools.
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