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Administration likely to appeal ruling on still segregated schools
The Nixon administration is expected to appeal Judge Pratt’s ruling allowing HEW to withhold federal funds to enforce desegregation in 17 Southern and border states. The case, a 1970s class action, cites 113 districts out of compliance and signals broader power to enforce desegregation through funding cuts if necessary.
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Joan Stowell
Associated Press
Washington
Nixon
Dist
John H. Prait
Health, Education and Welfare Department
Pratt
District of Columbia
Justice Department
Elliott
Lichtman
Naacp Legal Defense Fund
Hiew Inis
Mississippi
Louisiana
Tennessee
Virginia
Arkansas
MEW
Eliiot L. Richardson
J. Stanley Pottinger
U.S. Office For Civil Rights
HEW
Oklahoma
North Carolina
Florida
Pennsylvania
Georgia
Maryland
Justice