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Government Pressing Catch Up Classes for Negroes
The Department of Justice urges federal courts to require school boards in St Helena Parish Louisiana Sharkey and Issaquena counties Mississippi to establish catch up classes for Black students. The aim is to remedy past inferior education caused by racial segregation and ease Black children into previously white public schools. A DOJ spokesman described the issue as painful with some students approaching illiteracy after limited rural schooling.
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