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Louisiana race classification upheld in desegregation case
A Louisiana judge upheld a 1970 law declaring anyone with 1/32nd Negro blood as black. Susie Guillory Phipps, who asserts whiteness, remains listed as at least 3/32nds black on her birth certificate, prompting appeals as her lawyer vows to challenge the ruling.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Susie Guillory Phipps
Himr
Frederick Ellis
Phipps
Gree
Kipps
Brian Begue
Begue
Appeals Court
State Supreme Court
Jack Westholz
State Department of Health and Human Resources
Ellis
Westholz
Margarita
Anthony Vesich
Orleans Parish