Mississippi Reaches Accord In Higher Education Desegregation Case
Representatives in a long-running desegregation lawsuit involving Mississippi's higher education system have reached a $503 million settlement that is intended to address decades of deliberate racial segregation in state colleges and universities.
Filed last week in federal court in Oxford, Miss., the agreement seeks to improve academic programs and facilities at the state's three historically black universities-Jackson State, Alcorn State, and Mississippi Valley State universities.
The settlement was reached between the three schools, the U.S. Department of Justice, and Mississippi's Board of Trustees of State...
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