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Mississippi Moves to Circumvent School Segregation Ruling
Mississippi legislators move to abolish public schools to preserve segregation by leasing or selling state property for private schools with tuition paid from public funds. Gov. Hugh White pledges to resist the Supreme Court decision by all legal means. Federal suits target DC and Maryland school integration as white and Black pupils begin attending the same classes amid mixed reactions.
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Associated Preas
Mississippi
Deep South
U. & Supreme Corl
South
Supreme Court
Hugh White
NAACP
White
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Washington
Henry A. Schweinhaut
Columbia
Baltimore
Robert M. Furniss
Maryland
Dallas
Stark Hitt
State Board of Education
A. Harold Jones II
South Central Civic League
Atlanta
Tennessee
Cecil Sims
Nashville
Board of Education