An integrated classroom at Anacostia High School, Washington, D.C., in 1957. Photo by Warren K. Leffler, courtesy of the U.S. Library of Congress (Digital ID: ppmsca.03095). Once again, the mainstream media is distorting the facts. Following the Justice Department’s recent dismissal of a decades-old desegregation case in Louisiana, critics rushed to frame the action as a rollback of civil rights or, worse, a return to racial segregation in schools. But the facts do not support this narrative. In 1966, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit to desegregate schools in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. The resulting federal consent decree mandated the dismantling of the district’s racially segregated school system. By 1975, the court found the district had achieved integration. However, the case remained open for decades…
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