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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.
With the percentages they are talking about here it seems questionable that any real "segregation" is actually going on. But I guess something wasn't right.
anybody ever been to Mississippi? The racial divide is so thick you could cut it with a knife!
Yeah, lived there for a while. The racism of the average Mississippian, for the most part, is covert nowadays rather than overt (as in the form of lynchings and repressive police actions as in the 1860s to the 1950s).
Funny thing about Mississippi of the 1960s and early 1970s is that most whites in the state (not all whites, of course) wished for a return to legalized segregation that existed before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965, yet when a separatist organization set up shop in Jackson, called the Republic of New Africa, whites took them down swiftly with the long arm of the southern law (and aid of the FBI). They went in shooting and asking questions later, rounded up 11, sent them to jail for years and then on the appeals process most of the RNA walked.
Irony is, they didn't want blacks to be part of Mississippi society, nor did whites want blacks to separate from it either. Strange, huh?
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.
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