Hillsborough, Fla., District Declared 'Unitary'
One of Florida's longest-running desegregation orders has been overturned by a federal court—the latest in a string of decisions to reverse decades of court oversight in Florida districts once found to operate racially divided schools.
In the most recent case, the Hillsborough County system, which includes Tampa, was declared free of racial segregation and released from a 1971 desegregation order. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, in Atlanta, handed the ruling down March 16.
The late Thurgood Marshall, the first black U.S. Supreme Court justice, helped file the 1958 lawsuit that led to...
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