Decades Of Federal Litigation Surrounding Racially Segregated Mississippi Schools Culminates In Court's Consolidation Order
May 19, 2016 - In 1965, 10 years after the United States Supreme Court's second decision in Brown v. Board of Education, residents of Bolivar County, Mississippi, filed an action seeking the desegregation of their school system. After decades of litigation, the case came before the United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi, Delta Division, for the determination of an appropriate desegregation remedy for the high schools and middle schools in the Cleveland School District (District) in Bolivar County. The District had submitted two plans, proposing a combined middle school with two racially balanced high schools. Judge Debra M. Brown ordered on May 13, 2016, that the District must consolidate both its high schools and middle schools. In considering three plans: (1) the District’s Plan A, (2) the District’s Plan B, and (3) the U.S. Plan, the court determined that only the U.S. Plan of consolidation was adequate, feasible, and constitutional. The parties were directed to submit a proposed timeline to implement the U.S. plan in such a way as to ensure the immediate termination of the District’s dual system in its high schools and middle schools.
Lexis Advance users may access the full summary, including counsel and expert information, here: Diane Cowan, et al., and United States of America v. Bolivar County Board of Education, et al; 2016 Jury Verdicts LEXIS 3079.
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