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SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
United States of America v. State of Mississippi

3:70-cv-04706 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: July 9, 1970

Fifteen years after Brown v. Board of Education (1954), 88% of Mississippi’s black students still attended all-black schools. Ubiquitous “freedom of choice” plans let white children transfer to predominantly white schools. Individual lawsuits and threats of funding cuts from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare proved unable to effect wholesale desegregation. But in 1969, the Supreme Court ruled that the freedom of choice plan in Holmes County, Mississippi, was unconstitutional and …
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
United States v. Plaquemines Parish School Board

2:66-cv-00071 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: April 24, 2025

Closed Date: April 30, 2025

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) The United States brought this school desegregation case in 1966 against the Plaquemines Parish School Board. It was assigned to District Judge Christenberry.  In August 1966, the court entered a preliminary injunction barring the defendants from discriminating on the basis of race or color.  After substantial litigation, the plaintiffs won the action in 1971. In 1975, the district court concluded that "the relief provided in the court's …
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
United States of America v. Hendry County School District

1:70-cv-01069 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: July 17, 1970

Closed Date: Aug. 5, 2025

[This summary is temporary while we research the case.] This was a lawsuit challenging operation of a dual school system based on race in Hendry County, Florida. Originally filed on July 17, 1970, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, proceedings in the case included a preliminary order, in 1970, requiring conversion from a dual to a unitary school system, a permanent injunction, issued in 1975, prohibiting operation of a dual school system and requiring the district …

Case Dismissed (Voluntary)