The DOJ dismissed the case against the Plaquemines Parish School Board, after suing for desegregation in the mid-1960s.

The Justice Department is lifting a school desegregation order in Louisiana dating to the Civil Rights Movement, calling its continued existence a “historical wrong” and suggesting that others across the South should be eliminated.

In 1975, the court found Plaquemines Parish schools had been properly integrated, but the case was never removed from the court system, according to a DOJ news release. “No longer will the