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DOJ closes desegregation order at Louisiana school district after nearly 60 years
In 1975, the court found Plaquemines Parish schools had been properly integrated, but the case was never removed from the ...
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DOJ ends decades-old school desegregation case in Plaquemines Parish
The U.S. Department of Justice has dismissed the longstanding federal school desegregation case for Plaquemines Parish, with ...
DOJ voluntarily dismisses 50-year-old Louisiana desegregation case
After over 50 years, an open desegregation case against Plaquemines Parish School Board filed by the U.S. Department of ...
Justice Department ends Civil Rights-era school desegregation order in Louisiana
The Justice Department is lifting a school desegregation order in Louisiana dating to the Civil Rights Movement, calling its ...
DOJ closes case in Louisiana desegregating a school district after nearly 60 years
The DOJ dismissed the case against the Plaquemines Parish School Board, after suing for desegregation in the mid-1960s.
DOJ officially closes desegregation order at Louisiana school after nearly 60 years
Dozens of school districts across the South remain under court-enforced agreements dictating steps to work toward integration ...
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DOJ ends decades-old school desegregation case in Plaquemines Parish
The U.S. Department of Justice dismissed a decades-old school desegregation case against Plaquemines Parish on Tuesday, ending an integration order that local leaders forcefully resisted in the ...