Mississippi town to desegregate schools after 50-year fight
A federal court has ordered a Mississippi town to consolidate its junior high and high schools in order to fully desegregate its school system after a 50-year battle the town has waged with the U.S. Department of Justice, agency officials said Monday.
Black students and white students in Cleveland, Miss., are largely separated into two high schools, one mostly white and one mostly black, according to the announcement.
The situation is similar with the town's middle school and junior high - one has mostly black students, and the other is historically white, officials said.
As a result of the order, handed down late Friday by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi, the Cleveland School District will combine the two high schools together, as well as join the junior high and middle school into one, desegregating the secondary schools for the first time in the district's 100-year history.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mississippi-desegregation-idUSKCN0Y724L
But according to Chief Justice John Roberts, racial discrimination doesn't happen anymore.........
