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50-year segregation lawsuit to settle
Washington Times ^ | Tuesday, August 12, 2003

Posted on 08/11/2003 10:52:44 PM PDT by JohnHuang2

Edited on 07/12/2004 4:06:10 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — President Eisenhower was launching his re-election bid in 1956 when black schoolchildren here embarked on what has become the nation's oldest school-desegregation lawsuit.

Now, nearly a half century later, a judge who keeps the original, yellowed papers in a vault is set to bring the case to a close with a long-awaited settlement.


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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: integration
Tuesday, August 12, 2003

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